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Subscribe or Follow a podcast: What’s in a word?

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14 March 2021

I subscribe to a lot of podcasts. Until now, I’ve never thought much about the word ‘subscribe’ and its meaning in the context of podcasts. To get a podcast, you subscribe to it. That’s the way it’s been since the dawn of podcasting back in the early 00s when we spoke of using a podcatcher […]
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Communication, Innovation, Marketing, Software, Technology, Trends

Get to know ‘non-fungible tokens,’ NFT for short

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5 March 2021

A phrase you’ll probably be hearing or reading about quite a bit in the coming weeks and months is ‘non-fungible tokens.’ I’d not come across it until I read a Reuters report about a guy who sold a 10-second video artwork by the digital artist known as Beeple for $6.6 million at a Christies auction […]
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Business, Communication, Marketing, Podcasting, Social Networks, Software, Technology, The Hobson & Holtz Report, Web

FIR 204: Won’t you Join Us in our Clubhouse?

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28 February 2021

How safe is Clubhouse? asks Wired magazine in the latest critical look at the social audio service that appeared in April 2020 – less than a year ago. It’s attracting huge attention globally. Alongside the hype and hyperbole that have been hallmarks of the perceived attractiveness and exclusivity of the invitation-only iOS app that passed […]
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Business, Communication, Politics, Public Relations, Small Data Forum, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Technology

SDF 44: Facebook and the robber barons are at it again

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23 February 2021

Last week Facebook announced that it had decided to up the ante in its fracas with the Australian government and ban mainstream media news on its platform. The move meant that all Facebook users – not just Australians – would not be able to share or view news on Australian news Pages on Facebook. This […]
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Communication, Public Relations, Reputation, Volunteerism, Web

Civilising Wikipedia

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14 February 2021

Last month, Wikipedia celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the founding of its English-language website, an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. Today, Wikipedia has more than 55 million articles available in over 300 languages, in addition to the original English. It says that 1.7 billion unique visitors come to its websites every month. For […]
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