Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #167: August 28, 2006

    Content summary: Agency.com gives up on Subway pitch; contribute to BusinessWeek’s ‘Best of the Web’ series; technology lets advertising get personal; the growth of the mobile internet; GM’s Michael Wiley joins Edelman; Paramount Pictures and the snide blogger: how should…

  • You can’t have it your way

    Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 was announced a couple of days ago. I’ve been trying out the various betas over the past few months, so I downloaded RC1. I think the betas have been pretty good from both a…

  • SNCR Awards deadline approaching

    If you’re considering submitting an entry for the SNCR Awards – the contest organized by the non-profit think tank Society for New Communications Research – the deadline is 8 September, so you still have time. A worthwhile contest: […] The…

  • Send Skype a birthday card

    Skype, the internet phone service, celebrates its third year in business on Tuesday 29 August. The company has organized a birthday greetings contest where the author of the best birthday card will get a cool prize. But if you’re a…

  • The CIPR ostrich

    The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) proclaims it is “the eyes, ears and voice of the public relations industry” in the UK. I think that’s rather worrying. It seems to me that those eyes, ears and voice are deeply…