Content summary: A musical interlude from Eric Schwartzman and Bryan Person; congratulations to Edelman for ‘Agency of the Decade’ award from The Holmes Report; upcoming FIR Interview with Andrea Weckerle; FIR Live on Jan 23; Dan York has resolutions for 2010 and reports on Seesmic and Ping FM, Skype on HD-TV, and more; follow up: Twitter account implicated in TSA leak case; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: social networking suicide, one entrepreneur’s story on why Twitter is the only social media tool he uses, study shows how companies deal with negative online comments, controlling leaks Apple style; listener comments; music from Modest Midget; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for January 7, 2010: A 62-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

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So, until Monday January 11…

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