Author: Neville Hobson

  • Join the FIR room in FriendFeed

    One thing we like doing and talking about on FIR is experimenting with different and new ways of communicating. And if you have a point of view you want to share with the FIR community, you have multiple ways of…

  • Gremlins strike FIR Live

    Things didn’t go to plan yesterday for the fourth episode of FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio. Shel’s posted a note on the FIR blog about our cancellation of the call-in show half way through, the reasons for which included poor…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #347: May 22, 2008

    Content summary: Disney closes a user community; Neville’s tech minute; how social media affects reporters and media coverage; the value of an apology; Ricardo on Spanglish; listener comments; reports from Dan York, David Phillips, and Ricardo from Costa Rica; music…

  • Gordon Brown talks innovation

    I spent most of Tuesday at The Innovation Edge, a one-day conference and exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Put very simply, The Innovation Edge “aims to provoke thought and encourage debate about innovation.” It was organized by NESTA.…

  • PR spam is mostly the result of being careless

    Like many in the PR and journalism blogosphere, I get PR pitches by email every day. Like many, too, I welcome pitches if they are relevant to my interests. If they are, the chances are good that I will talk…