Author: Neville Hobson

  • Can they handle the truth?

    Today might be a momentous one in the unfolding drama that embraces News Corporation, phone hacking by journalists, police bribery, corruption and who knows what else as Rupert Murdoch and son James face a Parliamentary select committee investigating events that…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #608: July 18, 2011

    Content summary: FIR Interview with Cisco’s John Earnhardt posted, interview coming with Edelman’s Jonny Bentwood about Tweetlevel and Bloglevel; next FIR Live is on July 30; "About" page survey; listener comments from the FIR Friendfeed Room; Ragan promo; News That…

  • Connecting you with an internet of things

    You’ve probably heard about the refrigerator that tweets introduced by Samsung at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in the US. I bet you’ve also heard about plans by car maker Ford to offer the capability for you to listen to…

  • Seeing PR sense behind latest News International events

    The announcement this morning that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks had resigned provoked near-universal applause on Twitter, from what I could see in my content stream. It was also reported in mainstream media around the world, illustrating quite clearly how…

  • FIR Interview: Cisco’s John Earnhardt on ‘The Network’ social newsroom

    A piece of content that is shared with a friend, or friends, or followers, or the world is the ultimate measurement of its success, says John Earnhardt about Cisco’s new technology news site, The Network. The Network is very much…