Category: Podcasting

  • FIR’s still a labour of love

    On May 23, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz and I marked a milestone number for our weekly business podcast For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, usually referred to simply as ‘FIR’ – episode number 600. Many of our…

  • Starting the sixth year of FIR with a thank you

    Today at about 9am Pacific time, 5pm UK time, we’ll be recording this week’s episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, as we do every Monday. Today’s episode will be show number 580. Today also marks the…

  • Opportunity knocks for a good UK business podcast

    One of the things that continues to surprise me is the lack of niche business podcasts in the UK. I don’t mean the slickly-produced offerings from mainstream media organizations, of which there are many. By ‘niche,’ I mean podcasts like…

  • New FIR iPhone app launched

    If you were a fan of the iPhone or Android app for the For Immediate Release podcasts that we launched in February,  you may have been as dismayed as we were when both apps stopped working properly not long after…

  • Phone in your post to WordPress

    A new feature for users of WordPress.com, the hosted WordPress blog service, was launched this week called Post By Voice – you phone in your blog post rather than type it. To use it, you enable the feature in your…