Author: Neville Hobson

  • The coolest treadmill

    I’d definitely exercise more if I had one of these: Only five grand. More fun than jogging (especially here in the rain like today) and surely cheaper than a health club membership. (Via Brad Feld)

  • Queen’s Day fun in Amsterdam

    Today is Queen’s Day in The Netherlands (Koninginnedag in Dutch), the day that celebrates the birthday of Queen Juliana, the current Queen’s mother. As this day falls on a Sunday, the day of celebrations – flea markets and street parties…

  • Converting Skype voicemail to MP3

    I discovered a neat trick with Skype voicemail – how to convert a phone message from Skype’s proprietary audio format into an MP3 file which you can then use in other applications or share it with others. Skype does not…

  • New intranet report includes social media

    Melcrum Publishing has just published a research report entitled ‘Transforming Your Intranet.’ I got an email about it yesterday and my first thought was: yet another expensive report about intranets with the same old late-90s view about them and the…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #132: April 27, 2006

    Content summary: FIR Listener Survey update; IABC/Dallas podcast survey; communication conferences; connections and recording equipment; Southwest Airlines starts a blog; Lee Hopkins reports; BBC 2.0; Dan York reports; Waggener Edstrom blogging index; Jonathan Schwartz the first Fortune 500 CEO blogger;…