Year: 2009

  • Starting the fifth year of the FIR podcasts

    Four years ago today – on January 3, 2005 – we published the first episode of a new podcast called “For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report.” Describing ourselves as “Neville Hobson, ABC, and Shel Holtz, ABC, a pair…

  • Wikio top 30 UK tech blogs for Jan 2009

    Last month, my friends at information portal and news search engine Wikio gave me a pre-publication look at December’s top 20 list of the most influential tech blogs in the UK. They’ve done the same for the January 2009 list,…

  • O2: phone service awful, store service great

    It’s been a major frustration since Boxing Day – no iPhone! From one day to the next, my iPhone suddenly didn’t work. When I turned it on, all that happened is the screen you see in the image. The most…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #410: January 1, 2009

    Content summary: Happy New Year and Speedy Alka-Seltzer; four years of FIR on Jan 3; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; yesterday’s podcast panel on Talkshoe; the demise of Podango; Dan York reports from New Hampshire; the Media Monitoring Minute…