Author: Neville Hobson

  • FIR Cut: Blubrry lifeline for Podango customers, introduces Powerpress plugin

    Overflow from FIR #409 on December 29, 2009. News That Fits: “About a year ago, as an experiment,  I uploaded some audio onto Podango […]” Podango Warns That The End Is Near Podango Won’t Make It to 2009 and Neither…

  • FIR Cut: Opacity in coal industry blogger outreach programme

    Overflow from FIR #409 on December 29, 2009. News That Fits: Coal Front Group Sets Up Dirty ‘Blogger Brigade’ To Fight Reality Download this podcast (1.87Mb, 3:58) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #409: December 29, 2008

    Content summary: ‘Get well soon’ wishes to Chip Griffin and Jason Falls; the Shorty Awards; from Singapore, Michael Netzley discusses recent events in Australia, Papua, and China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: state of the Twittersphere…

  • When God asks

    Could be someone’s epitaph. It couldn’t be mine: I have less than 12,500. :) Great contemporary geek cartoon by Oliver Widder who draws at Geek and Poke. Discovered via Smashing magazine and their terrific showcase yesterday of 50 Beautiful Examples…

  • More confidence needed in IntenseDebate

    I’m not sure what to make of IntenseDebate, the third-party comment management system that’s been managing the comments, and the commenting process, on this blog since mid November. The screenshot above is probably as good an indicator as any of…