Year: 2011
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FIR Cut: Travel and Twitter
Overflow from FIR #580 on January 3, 2010. SocialTimes: Airlines & Politicians: Wintry Weather Creates A New Use For Social Media Twitter mashup: #uksnow Map The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation: @eurocontrol Download this podcast (MP3, 4.16Mb;…
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #580: January 3, 2011
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; this is the sixth anniversary show: a retrospective on show #1 from Jan 3, 2005; first FIR Book Review from Bob LeDrew is up; FIR Interview with Joseph Jaffe posted; listener comments…
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FIR Book Review: Deadly Spin by Wendell Potter
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, by Wendell Potter. FIR Book Reviews editor Bob LeDrew reviews Deadly Spin by former CIGNA PR executive Wendell Potter. According to…
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Starting the sixth year of FIR with a thank you
Today at about 9am Pacific time, 5pm UK time, we’ll be recording this week’s episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, as we do every Monday. Today’s episode will be show number 580. Today also marks the…
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Adapting to a new mobile connection
Good news for mobile phone users in EU countries – a voluntary agreement by the major mobile phone manufacturers came into force in the EU on January 1 where all new phones announced for sale in the EU in the…