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Month: July 2009

  • Spreading the word about swine flu

    Although swine flu isn’t the permanent news headline it was a few months ago, it’s still very much a virus whose spread and effects around the world become more alarming-looking whenever news about it is reported. That’s beginning to happen…

  • The passions of producing FIR

      If you listened to FIR 465 on Monday, or you subscribe to the FIR blog posts RSS feed, you’ll know that I won’t be co-presenting today’s episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report podcast with Shel. Instead, you’ll have…

  • Facebook’s big number: 250 million

    Social networking site Facebook said today that its user base now comprises over 250 million people around the world. While the announcement post by founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t especially compelling (it reads like a rather un-compelling corporate announcement), the interactive…

  • Teen views on what’s hot and what’s not

    The story of the teenager on work experience at financial services firm  Morgan Stanley in London – what my American friends call an ‘intern’ – who wrote a research paper on teenagers’ online media habits has grabbed attention everywhere as…

  • Easy FT on the iPhone

    The Financial Times has joined the growing group of media companies offering an easy means for readers and subscribers to access the newspaper’s online content from wherever they happen to be via a bespoke app for the iPhone. Today the…

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