Category: Communication

  • No genius at O2

    I was in a Twitter conversation this morning with Luke Razzell about the iPhone and our different experiences when something goes wrong. In Luke’s case, he had a problem with the antenna of his iPhone. He visited an Apple Genius…

  • Starting the fifth year of the FIR podcasts

    Four years ago today – on January 3, 2005 – we published the first episode of a new podcast called “For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report.” Describing ourselves as “Neville Hobson, ABC, and Shel Holtz, ABC, a pair…

  • Reflections on 2008

    Not a time for me to write a weighty post on the last day of 2008. No predictions, no recommendations – you have lots of choices for those things – just some reflections on people, places and events during this…

  • More confidence needed in IntenseDebate

    I’m not sure what to make of IntenseDebate, the third-party comment management system that’s been managing the comments, and the commenting process, on this blog since mid November. The screenshot above is probably as good an indicator as any of…

  • Twitority fires a first shot at authority search on Twitter

    Loic Le Meur’s kick-start yesterday of a storm of discussion about his call for a means of searching Twitter posts by authority has just borne some early fruit in the shape of Twitority. Twitority is a search tool that lets…