Content summary: Listeners’ comments and discussion; 5 minutes on… Have you heard of Facebook Stories (and Twitter Tales)?, books disruption: Seth Godin will no longer publish the old way and ads are coming, Disney invites bloggers to get aggregated, Skype etiquette; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Dan York reports on serendipity and discovery, Michael Netzley in Singapore takes a look at mobile communications in Indonesia; music from A Band Called Quinn; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for August 23, 2010: A 67-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Monday August 30…

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