Year: 2006

  • The BBC’s Second Life

    This weekend, the BBC is broadcasting One Big Weekend, a live rock concert from Dundee, Scotland. Giant screens in various UK locations enable anyone there to enjoy the happenings from Dundee. Not only in the real world, though: The BBC…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #136: May 11, 2006

    Content summary: Lee Hopkins is guest co-host; Neville reports on Allan Jenkins’ thoughts for IABC Scandanavia and a UK politician’s behind-the-scenes blog; atheists take a stab at marketing nothing; Dan York reports on Podcast University and an offline blog editor;…

  • Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 11-May-06

    Heading off to catch a flight to London where I’m participating in the Delivering The New PR conference tomorrow. This is a hot event with more than 150 communicators participating, from around the UK and from continental Europe. I’m looking…

  • FIR Interview – Christopher Carfi, CEO, Cerado: May 10, 2006

    In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel enjoyed a 28-minute conversation with Christopher Carfi, CEO of Cerado and author of the Social Customer Manifesto blog, about the link between communications and customer relations, new approaches to customer…

  • The French oxymoron called Quaero

    In January, I wrote about Quaero, a planned European multimedia search engine, the answer to Google and brainchild of the French government. My own thoughts about it were expressed thus: […] The idea of Quaero is a terrific one. Yet…