Month: June 2006

  • Microsoft’s opportunity post-Scoble

    Some of the blogosphere commentary following Robert Scoble’s news that he is leaving Microsoft to join Podtech in July is on who will be the next Scoble at Microsoft. If such a question refers to someone taking on the same…

  • Personal attention-getter

    I usually dump all promotional mail I receive with little more than a cursory glance at it. I’m talking about physical mail, the stuff that’s delivered by a real human being, aka the postman. But a mailing I received today…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #145: June 12, 2006

    Content summary: A week on the road; podcast interviews in New York; Robert Scoble to leave Microsoft; content at the edge and tagging; European politicians embrace social media; Lee Hopkins reports; a conversation with Joseph Jaffe on Web 2.0; listeners’…

  • Reflections from a week on the road

    New York and Amsterdam are just 6 hours and 20 minutes apart with a good tail wind so my flight home overnight on Saturday felt a bit like a commute. KLM flight 644 was completely uneventful: it left JFK on…

  • Heading home

    Saturday morning in New York City. I’ve been here since Wednesday participating in the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference at Columbia University. Pretty intense couple of days as Shel and I have been doing back-to-back podcast interviews for Corante – ten…