Year: 2008

  • Has a tipping point arrived for Twitter?

    A lot of people have being doing a lot of writing about Twitter during the past week. I’m not referring specifically to the awful events in Mumbai, India, where Twitter played a significant role in rapidly connecting online people with…

  • A politician’s arrogance or ignorance

    Here’s an extraordinary tale from Robin Wauters of a prominent politician’s cavalier attitude to public funds and contempt for people’s opinions. As described by Robin, the story is about Belgian Minister of Defence Pieter De Crem, pictured above, whose recent…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #401: November 27, 2008

    Content summary: An extra-hefty holiday episode; Happy Thanksgiving to our listeners in the US; Neville is at the “New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy” conference in Barcelona (which he is chairing) while Shel is with family in Las Vegas…

  • Getting social in Barcelona

    A pre crack-of-dawn flight from Gatwick tomorrow will take me to Barcelona, Spain, and the New Media in Marketing & Communications Strategy conference that starts tomorrow Wednesday November 26 and runs through the end of Thursday November 27. The event…

  • Spam blogging by any other name

    I’m sure there will be some people who sign up for WordPressDirect who will do so thinking it presents a quick and easy way to crank out blog posts with minimum effort. Looking through the website, though, it seems to…