Month: September 2008

  • Brands face trust issues with ‘Made in China’

    Glancing through this site’s visitor stats, I noticed a high number of inbound connections coming from Google searches on ‘cadbury recall products’ and ‘cadbury list of recalled products.’ Those searching arrived at “Cadbury product recall needs two-way dialogue,” a post…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #384: September 29, 2008

    Content summary: FIR listener contest update; Podcamp Ireland; Michael Netzley in Singapore discusses transparency and trust in Asia; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits – which comes first: employees or customers?, mystery meetings, new books on crowd…

  • Raising breast cancer awareness with Tommy

    Meet Tommy. He’s the star in a new campaign from Cancer Research UK to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month which runs through October. Tommy is the ‘breast awareness guy,’ the focal point of a special website and starring in a…

  • Some transparency at least

    The Cabinet Office official who left top-secret documents on a train in June is to be charged under the Official Secrets Act, the BBC reports. […] BBC defence correspondent Frank Gardner said the move would have come as a surprise…

  • The evolution of blogging

    During the past week, Technorati has published a series of articles on the state of the blogosphere in 2008, the first such report in nearly 18 months. Like previous reports from Technorati, this latest one goes beyond just the raw…