Month: September 2009

  • Ipadio live audio at book launch

    This week has been rather an intense one so far, keeping me at the keyboard most of the time, so I’m quite disappointed that I can’t get into central London today for the launch of International Communications Strategy: Developments in…

  • Speaking up in September

    I’ve just updated the list of events I’m participating in during the rest of this year, mostly as a speaker. There were more than I thought! Here FYI is what I’m involved with on the immediate horizon, during September: Social…

  • RSS, Twitter and lifestreaming: Is there an engagement somewhere?

    Quite a bit of buzz today over the news from Matt Mullenweg that WordPress.com supports RSS Cloud, a new development in the evolution of RSS. Created by Dave Winer, RSS Cloud basically involves the push-notification to subscribers of your RSS…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #481: September 7, 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s on the road; the next FIR has Joseph Thornley as guest co-host as Neville’s going to Twestival Local; upcoming FIR interviews include Steve Rubel; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on sovereign wealth and communication; the Media Monitoring…

  • A matter of grammar spin

    A report on the BBC News website this morning, about Kraft’s unsolicited takeover bid for Cadbury’s, included a sentence containing the use of a verb in a way that jarred my syntax sensibilities. The verb is ‘spin,’ used by the…