Content summary: Two FIR Interviews posted: Andrea Weckerle and Maggie Fox; FIR Interview coming with Ford’s Scott Monty and Paul Thomas; next FIR Live on Jan 23; congratulations to CC Chapman for 5 years and 300 episodes of Accident Hash, and to Joseph Jaffe for being acquired; Michael Netzley in Singapore in conversation with Shashank Nigam of Simpliflyings; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: NLA suspends web clippings charges pending copyright appeal from Meltwater News, David Meerman Scott’s ROI rant, ING campaign in the US aims for investors via bloggers, newspapers still lead in providing information says survey; listener comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show; music from Soul of The River; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for January 11, 2010: A 57-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Thursday January 14…

(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)