Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Obama landslide

    At least, a landslide is what happened in The Economist’s Global Electoral College which closed last week: Barack Obama has won at least one election by a landslide. Voters in The Economist’s Global Electoral College favoured the Democratic candidate over…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #394: November 3, 2008

    Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; thanks Jeremiah Owyang and welcome new listeners!; panel discussion in FIR Live on November 7; new FIR Interview with Paul Pendergrass aka Jack Flack; Michael Netzley reports from the Singapore Geek Dinner…

  • All you need is 140 characters

    Earlier today, I posted on my tech blog links to two video reviews I made of my experiences and impressions about the new Googlephone aka the T-Mobile G1 from using it during 48 hours last week. But if I were…

  • An easy guide to destroying reputations

    The kerfuffle surrounding Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross and the BBC came to a conclusion of sorts a few days ago with Brand quitting, Ross suspended and the BBC’s head of Radio 2 resigning. This story has many of the ingredients…

  • FIR Interview: Paul Pendergrass, aka Jack Flack, blogger for the New York Times

    Paul Pendergrass, corporate communicator and executive speechwriter, recently joined the New York Times’ DealBook blog to write about PR and communications under the pen name Jack Flack. In this FIR Interview, Paul discusses the role of writing about his craft,…