Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #130: April 20, 2006

    Content summary: FIR listener survey update; GM launches new blog; International Podcasting Expo starts April 21; the growth of podcasting: FeedBurner report; the PR agency social media billing puzzle; Dan York reports; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; next show…

  • New GM blog launches

    General Motors launched a new blog yesterday, the FYI Blog. In an introductory post, GM’s director of new media, Michael Wiley, outlined how GM intends this new blog to complement the current FastLane Blog (written by senior executives led by…

  • More subscription choices

    There’s no doubt that subscribing to someone’s blog or website via RSS in order to automatically receive their content each time their site is updated is a convenient way to stay on top of the latest information. No manually going…

  • Impacts of Skype growth

    SkypeJournal guest blogger Jean Mercier has an interesting story about the continuing growth of Skype. Stats on numbers of downloads of the app you install on your computer to actually use the service – now approaching 300 million according to…

  • Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 19-Apr-06

    Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain Benefits of Podcasting Can Bloggers Make Money? – Blogs have a lot of buzz … (Wall Street Journal) Corruption, organised crime and blogging FeedBurner Will Dominate Blog-to-Email How to Engage a PR…