Month: November 2006

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #194: November 30, 2006

    Content summary: SNCR’s new print journal; Microsoft launches Windows Vista; word of mouth marketing; the police and the blogosphere; TiVo and attention; David Phillips reports on CBS on YouTube, XPRL and the CIPR guidelines; listeners’ comments discusssion; Dan York reports…

  • No painless switching to Open Office

    The French parliament has said ‘au revoir’ to Microsoft, according to a Yahoo News report: […] Starting [next June], French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft’s…

  • If Microsoft had Firefox…

    An imaginative spoof. I don’t know who’s behind it nor what its marketing or PR goal might be. No matter – hugely disruptive entertainment! http://www.msfirefox.com/ I bet Stuart would like this :) (Via TechCrunch UK)

  • The never-ending spam deluge

    If you’ve noticed a sudden upsurge in spam email in the UK recently, offering sex, stock tips, genuine fake Rolexes and the usual pharmacopia, it could be the result of criminal gangs using hijacked computers, says a Reuters report. I’ve…

  • New PR blog, new PR network

    Two emails from two Canadian PR bloggers with news of new developments in PR blogging. The first from Eric Eggertson in Saskatchewan, with news that he’s started Common Sense PR for b5media, the fast-growing blog network founded by Canadian serial…