Year: 2007

  • 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…

  • Meeting the wizard of AUS

    I was in London for much of the day yesterday. For a wholly professional reason during the morning, and then for a very pleasant lunch. I met Trevor Cook. Trevor’s one of the very first PR bloggers I became virtually…

  • When you’re sitting comfortably

    As the chairs in this photo might indicate, the hip Soho Hotel in London has quite an eye-popping venue for a meeting. This was the scene early yesterday morning in the hotel’s screening room  just before people arrived for the…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #294: November 19, 2007

    Content summary: New FIR Interview posted; upcoming FIR Interview; SNCR Research symposium in Boston; Neville and Trevor Cook get together; Lee Hopkins reports on being on the cusp of something big, tracking down Meryl David, and more; the Media Monitoring…