Year: 2009

  • At the IABC World Conference

    On Saturday morning, I’ll be on a plane from London Heathrow to San Francisco to take part in the 2009 IABC World Conference. The prime reason I’m going is because I’m receiving the 2009 Chairman’s Award on Sunday evening, a…

  • Palm Pre and iPhone 3G compared

    Palm launches its newest mobile device in the USA tomorrow – the Palm Pre – which some people see as the closest thing yet to an iPhone killer. Here are the two gadgets compared side by side. If you’re not…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #454: June 4, 2009

    Content summary: Update on FIR Listener Dinner in San Francisco on June 7; new FIR mailing list starts; a note about General Motors’ communications; follow-up discussion about Ulitzer and Aral Balkan; Dan York reports on Google Wave; the Media Monitoring…

  • Vote and show you have influence

    Some of my friends in the UK didn’t vote today in the European Parliament elections. Quite a few of them say they are so disillusioned with politics, why bother. Others say they have no interest in what’s going on in…

  • Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs for June 2009

    The latest ranking information for UK blogs, for June 2009, is about to be published by Wikio, the information portal and news search engine. As with each month this year, my friends there have let me have an advance look…