Month: February 2008

  • Ten Chinese superlatives

    In The Economist this week, there’s a fascinating feature about China and the country’s development of its infrastructure – roads, railways, airports, etc. As with much of the writing in The Economist, it’s a well-written and compelling piece that draws…

  • FIR Report: IABC EuroComm 2008

    The seventh annual IABC EuroComm Conference took place in Barcelona, Spain on February 4-5, 2008. This professional development event, organized by IABC Europe and Middle East Region in cooperation with La Salle University, Barcelona, brought together communicators from across the…

  • Overlay TV could be for you

    If you create videos for online use and would like to include context-relevant links in those videos to content elsewhere on the internet, today’s launch of Overlay.TV could be of interest to you. You’ll also likely be interested if the…

  • Cut from FIR #319

    Overflow from today’s FIR #319: 1-Minute News The continuing difficulty in leaving Facebook Social media release functionality among the news wires Download FIR Cuts MP3 – Leaving Facebook (3:41) | SMR functionality (3:08) If you want to automatically receive FIR…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #319: February 14, 2008

    Content summary: Vote in FIR Live call-in poll; upcoming FIR Interview and Speakers & Speeches podcasts; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; CNN launching citizen journalism news site iReport.com; twittering your Yahoo layoff experience; environmental activists confront GM on GMNext…