Month: December 2008

  • Christmas reading list

    A package from Amazon UK arrived this morning with a copy of The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging that you see pictured here. I first heard about this book last month in a post by Darren Rowse, so I…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #406: December 15, 2008

    Content summary: Two FIR Interviews posted, one more coming, FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio set for Dec 19; discussion: Chris Brogan’s Kmart/Izea sponsored post controversy; Michael Netzley reports on some of his latest research findings from the Digital Media Across…

  • FIR Live panel discussion Dec 19 on Forrester’s corporate blogging report

    Corporate blogs rank at the bottom of the trust scale with only 16% of online US consumers who read them saying that they trust them. That’s according to Time To Rethink Your Corporate Blogging Ideas, a new report from Forrester…

  • A look into RSS feeds managed by Google

    Last weekend, all my RSS feeds that have been managed by Feedburner over the past four years were auto-migrated to Google. This is a culmination of a process arising from Google’s acquisition of Feedburner in mid 2007 where all RSS…

  • Early-warning alarm bell for Swisscom

    Swisscom’s reputation is being dragged through the online mud this weekend and I wonder where this story will go over the next few days. It probably wouldn’t get a lot of attention if it weren’t for a combination of irresistible…