Year: 2008

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #370: August 11, 2008

    Content summary: Appeal to a listener in Ireland; update on voting in PR Week blog contest; Michael Netzley in Singapore discusses Web 2.0 coverage of the Olympic Games and North Korea’s plan to join the world wide web; the Media…

  • Finding people with the Twellow directory

    Much has been written in recent months about the allure of Twitter and why people stick with it through thick and thin. Twitter has no shortage of rival micro-blogging services – Pownce, Plurk, Identi.ca and Jaiku are the obvious ones…

  • Social media and the 2008 Olympic Games

    The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #369: August 7, 2008

    Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; a conversation with Shel in Washington, DC; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits – orchestrating social media: in business, somebody needs to do it, Wrapit plus Facebook equals angry…

  • No authenticity in slick BA ads for T5

    In my car this morning, I heard a 30-second ad on my local radio station 2-Ten FM from British Airways which talked about the average time experienced by specific passengers when they checked in for a flight at Heathrow’s Terminal…