Category: Social Media

  • The utility of TweetDeck

    One word that’s getting mentioned a lot by many Twitter users these days is TweetDeck, the desktop application for interacting with your Twitter community that’s the preferred app by increasing numbers of people including me. And one individual who’s getting…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Powerpress: A viable alternative to Podpress

    If you’re a podcaster and use the Podpress plugin on your WordPress blog to deliver your podcasts, you’ve probably been having a frustrating time of it during much of 2008. The last release of Podpress was version 8.8, released in…