Category: For Immediate Release

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #284: October 15, 2007

    Content summary: Shel’s in Virginia with much better hotel wifi; the spread of wifi in communities and differences on both sides of the Atlantic; rules for online posting from the Online Journalism Review; word of mouth is the most powerful…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #283: October 11, 2007

    Content summary: Shel’s in Dallas with the world’s worst broadband; C.C. Chapman’s new gig; Dan York reports; Google buys Jaiku; David Phillips reports; Neville drops off; an editor’s letter; Great Facebook Debate sells out; listener comments; music by Paperboy Jack;…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #282: October 8, 2007

    Content summary: Shel’s in Manchester, England; wrap-up of the past week including the FIR Geek Dinner in Windsor; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; how reCAPTCHA fights spam and helps preserve old books and manuscripts; British Library books go digital;…

  • Conversations at FIR Geek Dinner Oct 5

    A great success is how we would judge the first FIR Geek Dinner in the UK which took place in Windsor on Friday October 5, 2007. As the photo indicates, we had a full house in the Ristorante Amalfi where…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #281: October 4, 2007

    Content summary: FIR face-to-face again in Wokingham, England; FIR Geek Dinner update; thoughts on this week’s CIPR social media workshop and the Ragan/SimplyCommunicate social media masterclass; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York on the Podcasting and New Media…