Year: 2006

  • Podcast Awards nominations are open

    The second annual Podcast Awards is up and accepting nominations, and your FIR co-hosts would be delighted if you’d nominate us in the “Business” category. These awards are presented at the Portable Media and Podcast Expo in Ontario, California, on…

  • Listen to the new PR voices

    I’ve just spent a valuable thirty minutes absorbing some great thinking from a range of new PR voices at Behind The Spin, the blog of the print magazine of the same name written by PR students from across the UK.…

  • PubSub still in business

    Is the PubSub search engine business still in business or not? In a post on his blog yesterday, Dave Winer said: […] I’m sitting next to John Furrier at Gnomedex and he says he heard from Bob Wyman last night…

  • Each of us has value to someone

    Thoughtful writing in the current Wired magazine by Chris Anderson (he of the Long Tail) in an article about the business and relationship transformations happening, in what he calls the “peer production era.” I like his conclusion: […] This isn’t…

  • Don’t expect answers from Jupiter Research

    In show #150 of FIR last Thursday, Shel and I talked about Toby Bloomberg’s experience with Jupiter Research concerning their recent research report about corporate blogging. This is the report that says 35% of large companies (in the US) plan…