Content summary: Jeremy Wright’s b5media co-branded blogs for Fox Media’s TV shows; Netscape returns with a Digg-like news page; a new Digg-like service for PR; retailer opens store in Second Life; Nielsen releases email newsletter/RSS usability report; Robert Scoble speaks for Microsoft on BBC TV; classified advertising stats: new media aren’t killing old media; press releases are preferred content type among knowledge workers: survey; Lee Hopkins reports; Jeremy Pepper highlights trademark issues in Second Life; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.

Show notes for June 19, 2006

Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 93-minute podcast recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.

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So, until Thursday June 22…

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