Content summary: Listeners’ comments (Blue Boxes and phone phreaks; the music industry and podsafe music; recommended IT Conversations interview; Daily Telegraph starts podcasting; more on the anti-blog backlash; regulating American political blogs); Wikipedia defends itself; report from the Portable Media Expo; most powerful women bloggers list includes a man; Podcaster News launches; My Syndicaat RSS engine debuts; Lee Hopkins’ Report; blogger relations and public relations; PubSub PR List; addressing questions from the Financial Times on companies and blogging; latest Speakers & Speeches podcast posted; upcoming FIR interviews.
Show notes for November 14, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 99-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.
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In this Edition:
Intro:
- 00:28 Neville introduces the show; about SkypeOut; what the show’s about; what’s in this edition; show notes
Listeners’ comments discussion:
- 03:43 Howard Harawitz on "Blue Boxes" and phone phreaks; a reminiscence on those pre-PC computing days
- 07:38 Robin Mayfield asks if anyone has noticed any reaction from the music industry to the rise of podsafe music, recommends listening to IT Conversations: Voices in Your Head, and tells us that The Daily Telegraph started a daily podcast today
- 17:31 Rob Cottingham says fear is the name of the game in the mainstream media anti-blog backlash; regulating American political blogs – why our sympathy should be with those who will have to implement the regulations
News:
- 24:21 Wikipedia defends itself against charges of inaccuracies by an ex-managing editor of Encyclopedia Britannica
- 31:22 The Portable Media Expo last week – excellent commentaries on sessions and keynotes from Matt Foster
- 39:45 The ten most powerful women in blogging… the 8th one, Joi Ito, is actually a man
- 44:02 Podcaster News launches, the latest venture from Todd Cochrane; potential new developments from Yahoo! Podcasts; and what about iTunes and Odeo‘s planned podcast-creating capability?
- 52:41 My Syndicaat, a new RSS "news mastering engine," debuts
Features:
- 56:54 From Our Correspondent Down Under: Lee Hopkins – on jargon words; happy birthday to the Coffee; Mr & Mrs Jenkins caught on camera; Constantin’s PubSub PR rankings; ‘Perfect Medical Presentations’ book wins prestigious gong; article & white paper on knowledge management; Lee’s rant: the corporate blogger’s professional project
- 64:28 Taking up Lee’s rant – is there a difference between "blogger relations" and "public relations"?
- 70:18 The PubSub PR rankings – does volume of posting make a difference to where you appear on the list?
- 73:24 Continuation from show #84: The Financial Times asks lots of questions about companies and blogging – we try and provide some of the answers
Outro:
- 90:13 Shel outros the show; upcoming interviews, probably next week; latest Speakers & Speeches podcast posted; show notes; how to give your feedback
- 92:59 Shel’s solo on Thursday’s show as Neville travels to the UK to speak at a conference at the University of Sunderland
- 94:34 The music – Bad Religion from Jimmie Bratcher via Podsafe Music Network
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So, until Thursday November 17…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)