Year: 2007
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #218: February 26, 2007
Content summary: A bad marketing stunt in Boston for Dr Pepper produces apologies from Cadbury-Schweppes; MP3 file format under threat if Microsoft pays Alcatel-Lucent in lawsuit; Steve Rubel’s guide on how to turn Gmail into a personal nerve center; OpenID…
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Does PR have a duty to tell the truth?
What a topic for a debate! This took place at the University of Westminster in London last Tuesday: Leading figures of the UK PR world are to hold a debate at the University of Westminster on whether ‘PR has a duty to tell…
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Rats to KFC
I saw this video report on BBC World last night about a rat infestation in a KFC restaurant in New York. Yecch! Then I thought, I bet it’s on YouTube. No prizes for that guess. Yes, there’s a video on…
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Upgrading to latest WordPress
If you visit this site during the next few hours, you will encounter some odd things, both in appearance and functionality, as I upgrade the site to the latest WordPress version 2.1.1. At the same time, I’ll be upgrading the…
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DreamHost outage: Keeping the faith
If you tried to visit here during much of today, Sunday, you would have been out of luck. My hosting service, DreamHost, had a planned total power outage overnight Saturday/Sunday which resulted in every hosted website plus email being completely…