Content summary: Live recording via Skypecast; June 5 show to be recorded at IABC International Conference, Vancouver; June 8 show to be recorded at Corante marketing conference, New York; Forrester survey on marketers shunning new media; David Philips reports (net neutrality and 13 US politicians); blog-based attacks to reputations – TechCrunch, O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 and Southampton football club; Dan York reports live (Commscafe.com, OPML); listeners’ comments discussion; details on FIR Dine-Arounds in Vancouver and New York; the music, and more.

Show notes for June 1, 2006

Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 98-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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In This Edition:

• Detailed show notes pending

This edition was recorded live via Skypecast. The show included real-time text chat by those who dialled in to the Skypecast. Chat captured here (text file).

Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute – see the home page for info.

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So, until Monday, June 5…

(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)