Year: 2007

  • 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,…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #221: March 8, 2007

    Content summary: Shel at New Communications Forum; Chip Griffin’s new podcast; Best Buy and Celebrity Big Brother follow-ups; UK government to warn illegal immigrants by text messaging; Sony launches virtual community for PS3 gamers; virtual worlds set for shake-up; Microsoft…

  • Opportunity for podcasters

    Internet radio broadcasters face the alarming prospect of paying much higher royalties to song performers, says the Wall Street Journal, a burden that could silence some online stations. This looks a possibility if you’re an internet station in the US…

  • New Communication Forum gets underway

    A great event starts tomorrow in Las Vegas, USA – the New Communication Forum 2007. I sit here in the UK feeling pretty gutted at not being there. I was due to participate, co-presenting a pre-conference workshop today on podcasting…