Month: November 2007

  • The saviour for English football

    I’ve never watched The Likeaballs, a cartoon TV series for kids on the BBC’s Ceebeebies channel at 7am every weekday. I’m a bit outside the target demographic :) But could The Likeaballs be the saviour for English football now that…

  • Another PR agency joins the conversation

    Last Monday, I participated in an event in London organized by Mantra PR. I was one of four speakers talking about social media in relation to advertising, broadcasting and PR. In my summary of the event, I mentioned that Mantra…

  • Cuts from FIR #295

    Overflow from today’s FIR #295: Paperless maps are the next killer app MoveOn.org takes on Facebook If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #295: November 22, 2007

    Content summary: Happy Thanksgiving; one laptop per child; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; social media and the US writers’ strike; 40% of news user-generated within three years: European media survey; bloggers and accuracy; companies still battling with internet time…

  • A hell of a way to get up to speed about data protection

    You’d have had to be off planet not to have heard about this political disaster that blew up yesterday which led to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling apologizing in the House of Commons. I watched the whole thing live…