Author: Neville Hobson

  • Hammer Films lives again on MySpace

    After a 30-year absence, Gothic horror film maker Hammer Films is about to make a comeback, not in cinemas but on the web. Who can forget Hammer’s iconic low-budget horror flicks from the 60s and 70s, especially those starring Christopher…

  • Cuts from FIR #301

    Overflow from today’s FIR #301: 1-Minute News Movable Type blog platform goes open source LinkedIn makes its move Download FIR Cuts MP3s – Movable Type (9:29) | LinkedIn (2:53). Apologies for the iffy audio quality in these recordings due, we…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #301: December 13, 2007

    Content summary: Eric Schwartzman meets the media: Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, UPI; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Twitter is one man’s conversation ecosystem and another’s massive waste of time; Annenberg study reveals that communicators are out of sync; retailers to…

  • Shades of grey

    Chip Griffin has a terrific post on Media Bullseye urging us to throw out the social media rulebook: Far too many of my colleagues who share a passion for the social media space treat this new media world more as…

  • Speeding your eBay purchase to you

    It is estimated Britons will spend more than £66 million online this Christmas buying a third of all their presents, according to news reports. Apparently, research carried out by eBay also shows that almost half of shoppers who have bought…