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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #500: November 12, 2009
Content summary: Welcome to the 500th episode; upcoming FIR Interview with Steve Rubel; Edelman launches TweetLevel while Waggener Edstrom prepares to launch TwendZ Pro; Dan York reports from Orlando, Florida; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop. What will FIR be reporting on and talking about in the next 500 shows? We consider and comment on […]
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Full story: Proposed cookies law is an ass
“Breathtakingly stupid” are the words used by Struan Robertson, editor of Out-Law.com, in a post describing a new law that demands consent to cookies that will be in force across the European Union within 18 months. Cookies are small text files many websites automatically store on your computer that do things like remember your preferences […]
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #499: November 9, 2009
Content summary: Introducing FIR Phone Quicks on ipadio; FIR Interview with Steve Rubel coming; just ask @FIR if you want to be included in the FIR Twitter List; the next show is FIR number 500: add the hashtag #FIR500 if you comment publicly; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the Frost & Sullivan ‘Meetings Around […]
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Full story: The problem with PR email
A timely story about that distribution channel so often misused by the PR industry – email. In an article published in Journalism.co.uk (and elsewhere), Iain Fleming, who works for Newslink, a news aggregation and delivery service in the UK, writes about the results of a survey he carried a few months ago on people’s attitudes […]