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Year: 2009

  • The Age of Stupid

    I’d not heard about The Age of Stupid before seeing a story in the Financial Times about it that showed up in my RSS reader this morning. The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in…

  • Spiralfrog’s final demise

    Some news stories provide a perfect opportunity for a bit of imagination in writing a snappy headline, often with a pun or metaphor. News a few days ago that ad-supported music sharing site Spiralfrog has bitten the dust was one…

  • Really fast Twitter growth

    The reasons why people use Twitter are probably as varied as the number of people on the service, some 7 million in total. There’s a rather amusing video parody of Twitter posted by Current TV which pokes fun at people…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #432: March 19, 2009

    Content summary: FIR Live #12 posted; IABC seeks sponsor for conference podcasting; Shel doing Gold Quill Blue Ribbon panel; Dan York reports from the town dump on the state of the news media, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with…

  • FIR Live #12: March 18, 2009

    Content Summary: Wide-ranging discussion with suggestions, tips and advice on how to be effective in your role as a communicator when you are the sole person (sometimes literally so) responsible for the full scope of organizational communication that might include…