Content summary: New FIR Interviews posted with ClearWire’s Adam Parker and Edelman Japan’s Ross Rowbury; FIR Interview coming with Azeem Azhar, founder of Peer Index; congratulations to social media pioneer Christopher Barger who moves from GM to Porter Novelli’s Voce; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Let your peers rate your PR influence says Deirdre Breakenridge, Dan York reports on LinkedIn’s brilliant PR stunt as it marks 100 million members, and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, do high-profile failures and firings signal the end of social media?, Pollstream promo, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; music from Sinfonia Electronique; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for March 28, 2011: A 65-minute podcast recorded live from New York, New York, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Monday April 4…

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