Month: November 2009

  • Spending most of a week in Sin City

    A bit of a dramatic headline, perhaps, but Sin City aka Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is where I’m headed on Sunday morning on a  Virgin Atlantic flight where I’ll be for most of next week, back here in the UK…

  • Introducing new FIR reporter Mark Story

    If you listen to FIR episode #504, you’ll hear a report filed by a new correspondent – long-time listener Mark Story who’s based in Washington, DC. Mark is Director of New Media at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He’s…

  • At the extremes with social media in the UK

    I agree with Stephen Waddington: if you’re in PR in the UK, Econsultancy’s Social Media and Online PR Report is essential reading. I’ve not yet read the detailed report, published earlier this week, just scanned through the extract freely available…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #504: November 26, 2009

    Content summary: Happy Thanksgiving to our US listeners; welcoming Mark Story as an FIR correspondent; we’re going to try Jeremy Hague’s Vodburner app for Skype video calls; Dan York reports on Google Wave and LinkedIn APIs, and has a neat…

  • Software should be smarter

    Earlier today, I updated a new program I’m trying out – Seesmic for Windows, which I wrote about last week. After the installer had updated the app, I launched it but got an alert from Norton Internet Security 2010. Up…