Author: Neville Hobson

  • Tech-challenged Europeans who don’t read blogs

    Reuters reports on a survey that says about 37% of people living in the 25 European Union countries have no computer skills, with Scandinavians being the most computer-literate and Greeks the least. The survey results – “How skilled are Europeans…

  • The comedy podcast from Number Ten

    Just been listening to comedian Eddie Izzard’s European podcast, an account of his two-day visit to Brussels last week in the company of Prime Minister Tony Blair for a meeting of the European Council. Izzard’s concluding remark is that he hopes…

  • Get what you want with RSS

    Steve Rubel delivers the goods with an excellent round-up of 35 ways you can use RSS today. I’ve learned from Steve’s list. Track new software releases, for instance. Hadn’t thought about that one. And key phrases and themes showing up…

  • European expansion for MySpace

    MySpace.com, the online social network, is often a topic I include in presentations and workshops about social media and social computing. The context is on the growth of cybercommunities and, in the case of MySpace.com, its rapid and growing appeal…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #147: June 19, 2006

    Content summary: Jeremy Wright’s b5media co-branded blogs for Fox Media’s TV shows; Netscape returns with a Digg-like news page; a new Digg-like service for PR; retailer opens store in Second Life; Nielsen releases email newsletter/RSS usability report; Robert Scoble speaks…