Content summary: Shel’s travel hell week; will John Wall do anything for our 250th?; The Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Lee Hopkins reports: talk about Second Life; Reuters CEO starts blogging; Vocus’ huge blogger relations mistake; McDonald’s petitions for change of dictionary definition of McJob; Sun Microsystems and the ambient conversation; Facebook opens up for third party widgets; UK survey: 40 percent of bloggers post damaging information; David Phillips reports on user generated markets; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.
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Show notes for May 28, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 59-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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So, until Thursday May 31…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
