Year: 2012

  • Democratizing visual expression

    As someone who only recently discovered Instagram when the Android version of the popular iPhone app was released a few months ago, I’m a compulsive snapper at any moment that I can whip out my smartphone. The beauty of Instagram…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #661: July 23, 2012

    Content summary: Two new FIR Interviews posted: Marcus Nelson, founder of Addvocate, and Kevin Delaney, Editor in Chief of Quartz; interviews this week scheduled with Philip Sheldrake and Stephen Waddington about ‘Share This: The Social Media Handbook for PR Professionals’…

  • The people and social media challenges at the 2012 Olympic Games

    Reuters reports that Anthony Edgar, head of media operations for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), freely admits that he does not know what to expect at the London Olympic Games following the explosion of social media, with some 900 million…

  • RIP Blackberry

    A great analysis in The New York Times magazine of RIM and brand destruction. This share price chart says it all. Story: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/how-the-blackberry-died.html Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell.

  • The future for QR codes can be rosy

    Whenever I read reports that assess how poorly QR codes and other barcodes are doing, and the unhappy outlook for their future, I’m always reminded of Hugh McLeod’s classic cartoon from 2007 you see here. A new report from eMarketer…