Month: March 2007

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #222: March 12, 2007

    Content summary: Shel’s recap of New Communications Forum; with Lee Hopkins taking a sabattical, we’re looking for guest reporters; Reuters sign in Times Square to feature PR Newswire photos; YouTube, Viacom and the removal of videos; Second Life: the taxman…

  • Skynet’s mission

    The British military’s Skynet 5 satellite has been launched into space. The spacecraft is part of a £3.2bn system that will deliver secure, high-bandwidth communications for UK and allied forces. Skynet? Sounds familiar: Skynet is a machine network that has…

  • Project Red Stripe: A Model-T Ford in any colour as long as it’s smokin’

    An interesting idea from The Economist – Project Red Stripe: Project Red Stripe is a six-member team comprised of The Economist Group’s employees that has been brought together with the task of creating an innovative and web-based product, service or…

  • Summer time woes from US time change

    Summer time doesn’t officially start in Europe for another two weeks, when clocks go forward one hour in the early hours of Sunday March 25. In the US, though, they’ve started summer time early this year when clocks went forward…

  • Twitter could become compulsive

    Like a great many people, I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Twitter during the past few weeks. Although I signed up in December, it’s only in the past two weeks that I’ve got active with it. During this past week,…