Year: 2007
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #267: August 16, 2007
Content summary: Podcast Awards 2007 winners announced; Dan York reports on social network portability, Tris Hussey’s Mediasphere podcast, data sharing summit, IABC Heritage Region conference; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; US report refutes claims of social networking dangers; editing…
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Useful but user unfriendly
One of the things I really like about DreamHost, the US company which hosts my sites including this blog, is the frequent and clear communication on what’s happening with their service. They have a status blog, but what I find…
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Right to the heart of full-content RSS feeds
If you offer an RSS feed from your website or blog that isn’t the full content, here’s something for you to think about. Like many people, I’m an RSS creative-consumer. That means I read almost everything of interest to me…
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Become a cartoon with MSN
This is one of those delightful mashups of software, the web and imagination that doesn’t really have much obvious practical application but is great fun. MSN China is running the MSN China cartoon beta that will take any photo of…
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Maximizing junk mail from the receiver’s viewpoint
I got sixteen individual items of junk mail through my letterbox this morning. Home furnishings, credit card offers, pizza restaurants, insurance… it goes on and on. Much of it has the pseudo-personal approach of “specially delivered to you by hand,”…