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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #481: September 7, 2009
Content summary: Shel’s on the road; the next FIR has Joseph Thornley as guest co-host as Neville’s going to Twestival Local; upcoming FIR interviews include Steve Rubel; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on sovereign wealth and communication; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: a question of grammar and a BBC blooper, Austin […]
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Full story: A matter of grammar spin
A report on the BBC News website this morning, about Kraft’s unsolicited takeover bid for Cadbury’s, included a sentence containing the use of a verb in a way that jarred my syntax sensibilities. The verb is ‘spin,’ used by the BBC in the report in the sense of spinning something off, eg, a business: ‘Span […]
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Full story: At least embrace the mobile web
Mobile commerce is ahead of its time, says a report by eMarketer published on September 4. […] mobile commerce is still in its infancy. Web-enabled mobile phone users are much more likely to employ their devices to get weather forecasts, read news, find movie times and bank online than to buy products. Consumers are willing […]
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Full story: Writing on The Next Web
Yesterday, I posted my first post on The Next Web blog. It was a cross-post of one I wrote here on my own blog. Interesting to see the popularity and global reach of The Next Web demonstrated as that first post got way more attention than the same post here. So what will I be […]
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Full story: Why you should upgrade your WordPress blog
If you use self-hosted WordPress for your blog and you’re not using the latest version, 2.8.4, you’re running a severe risk of your site security being compromised and even hacked. So do these three things right now: 1. Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard and check what version of WordPress you have installed. If […]











