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Year: 2011

  • Next FIR Live – July 30: Every company is a media company

    FIR Live #23 Saturday, July 30, 2011 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UK Participate or listen in These days, for a variety of reasons, every company needs to be a media company. Call it brand journalism. Call it…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #607: July 11, 2011

    Content summary: Vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; FIR now on Stitcher Radio; first FIR Plus video is up; FIR Live coming July 30 on ‘every company is a media company’, panelists include Tom Foremski, Mark Ragan and Wendy Tenaka…

  • A tipping point sets a milestone for mainstream media evolution

    I’ve been reading through the News of The World today. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought this newspaper – and the last time, too, as this was its last edition. The closure that concludes 168 years of newspaper publishing…

  • FIR Plus: A test drive of Google+Hangout

    FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz were joined by friends of FIR Kami Watson Huyse (of Zoetica), Lionel Menchaca (chief blogger for Dell) and Bryan Person (of LiveWorld) for a test drive of Google+ Hangout, the social network’s video…

  • On the death of a mainstream medium

    It’s an astonishing end to a newspaper that published its first edition in 1843 and grew to become the biggest-circulation English-language weekly newspaper in the world, with a readership averaging close to 7.5 million in 2010. That newspaper is the…