Month: June 2007

  • Today’s social networked world

    This is the world of social networks according to gossip blog ValleyWag citing data from Alexa. Although the map’s colours make it a bit difficult to see clearly which network is prevalent in which part of the world, you can…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #253: June 28, 2007

    Content summary: Road-weary Shel in Dallas; the IABC conference; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports; turning address books into social networks: is it time to look at Plaxo again?; social network overload; new intranets take a page…

  • The Foreign Secretary who blogs

    So the change has begun, following yesterday’s handover of power from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown, with the announcement this morning of the new Cabinet that Prime Minister Brown is forming. A huge change, it seems, in personalities and styles…

  • The only tech PR news is iPhone

    One of the questions we had in Monday’s FIR #252 came from Doug Haslam via Twitter: Should any PR people with consumer tech products even bother pitching this week? Or will it be all iPhone all the time? I recall…

  • More cool ways to use Twitter

    Along with about half the planet, I use Twitter, the compulsive chat/connector/micro-blogging (take your pick or add your own definition) service that lets you see what your friends are up to at any given moment and let them know what…