Content summary: Welcome Donna Papacosta as guest co-host; please vote for us at Podcast Alley; One Minute News: PRESSFeed simplifies news feeds, lots of RSS deals last week, NoteMesh lets students share notebooks, Nikon uses Flickr photographers in co-creation ad, Facebook opens its doors to everyone, Knight News challenges journalists and others to create web content to improve real communities, a report suggests email is as addictive as crack coaine; a commentary from Neville Hobson; Shel’s Mac died; a look back at Podcast Expo; a brief talk about HP’s handling of its crisis; listener comments; the music; and more.

Show notes for October 02, 2006

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 72-minute podcast recorded live from Concorde, California, USA, and Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

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In This Edition:

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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.

If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com; or call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

So, until Thursday, October 5…

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

[Note: your listening experience will not be good if you listen to the podcast from this web page, as Shel explains. Until the problem is fixed, I’ve disabled the streaming player. Please download the file instead and play it with your favourite MP3 player.]