Month: December 2009
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #513: December 31, 2009
Content summary: FIR 5th anniversary show on Monday; next FIR Live on Jan 23; Dan York says goodbye to 2009 and looks forward to the Tens; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: how should government address information…
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Navigating sat navs, settled for a Navman
One mobile device that ought to be added to any list of gadgets that epitomizes the Naughties (and there are lots of lists) is the portable satellite navigation device, or sat nav for short. I first used a portable sat…
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #512: December 28, 2009
Content summary: Comments for the first FIR Video; fifth anniversary show on Jan 4; next FIR Live on Jan 24; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the top ten stories from Asia during 2009; discussion: the ethics of non-attributed posts…
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Avatar: telling an old story in a new way
We went and saw Avatar yesterday, the film that’s getting a lot of attention for a variety of reasons since its release on December 17: the amazing digital effects, the dramatic and epic scale of the story, the $400 million…
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FIR Videos: PR Disasters – December 24, 2009
Using VodBurner, we have produced our first FIR video, a Skype call between FIR’s co-hosts. We’ll work on improving the quality, adding visuals and the like, as time goes on, but for our first effort on Christmas Eve, we opted…