Month: September 2009

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #483: September 14, 2009

    Content summary: New FIR Interview posted; next FIR Live will be in October; no report from Michael Netzley this week; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: social networks at top of 2010 media buying plans in the…

  • Understanding the large organization

    ReadWriteWeb reports on a Forrester survey last April which has revealed that despite the hype, it’s not Generation Y – those born somewhere between the late 1970s to the late 1990s, also known as Millenials – that’s getting business to…

  • An augmented reality spectacle

    For some time, I’ve been thinking about getting a new pair of glasses. Nothing wrong with my current pair from the vision point of view, you understand; it’s just that, well, they’re a bit passé now fashion wise. So over…

  • End of the road looms for SpinVox

    Things seem to be going from bad to worse for SpinVox. The voice-to-text transcription company has been at the centre of a major kerfuffle in recent months regarding the genuineness of its claims about its technology and how it performs…

  • FIR Interview: David Pugh, Managing Director, Newspaper Licensing Agency

    A topic that has produced passionate and some polarized opinion in the PR community in the UK in recent months is that of paying for a license if you use copyrighted digital content for commercial gain. From next January, anyone…