Year: 2006

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #139: May 22, 2006

    Content summary: Shel and Neville in NYC in June; Lee Hopkins and Allan Jenkins podcast; FIR shwaggers photos; update on Josh Hallett’s MP3s from the Syndicate conference; Hill & Knowlton’s blogger relations campaign for LG; the Waxxi experience; the first…

  • Google: The Buddha of the internet age

    A nice soundbite from an observer of the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference taking place in the UK today: […] One analyst, who declined to be named, said: “Google likes to see itself as the Buddha of the internet age who…

  • Perspectives on blog spam

    What do Nicholas Cage, David Carradine, Susan Hayward, Richard Burton and a whole host of Hollywood stars past and present have in common? Their names have been hijacked by blog spammers, according to Akismet which stops spam appearing on my…

  • Blogging primer for journalists

    Here’s a good example of a mainstream medium that ‘gets it’ concerning its journalists blogging. The Daily Telegraph’s news editor Shane Richmond has posted the Telegraph blogging style guide: […] that we send to our writers when they first start blogging.…

  • Surely conventional wisdom can’t be right

    Jeff Jarvis says: […] The problems with books are many: They are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. They have no link to related knowledge, debates, and sources. They create, at best, a one-way relationship…