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Month: August 2009

  • The changelog imperative

    A shoutout to the developers of the Blubrry Powerpress podcasting plugin for WordPress. The shoutout is for not only creating a very cool enhancement for WordPress blogs  – if you’re a podcaster with a WordPress blog, this plugin is a…

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  • I like to think of Friendbook not Facefeed

    Surprise news last night was Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed. Facebook – a giant among social networks – has grabbed the comparatively-tiny Friendfeed content-sharing service (which has just 12 employees) as the means to accelerate Facebook’s product development plans, according to…

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  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #473: August 10, 2009

    Content summary: FIR BrightIdea interview published; upcoming FIR Interview with Susan Getgood and Liz Gumbinner of Blog with Integrity; follow-up: latest developments in the SpinVox kerfuffle; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: the 2009 Digital Readiness Report…

  • What’s for lunch today, Twitter?

    An imaginative use of Twitter. Somerset County Council in southwest England is set to use Twitter to tell parents what’s on the lunch menu for their children at school. This idea is part of the Council’s My School Lunch initiative,…

  • How bad can it get for SpinVox?

    When I think about SpinVox and the huge public kerfuffle that broke out last month stemming from allegations made in a BBC investigation over SpinVox’s audio-to-text transcription service, Billy Flynn and razzle-dazzle from the musical Chicago is mostly what springs…