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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #480: September 3, 2009
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; SNCR Awards deadline is Sept 7; FIR Interview with Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge posted; upcoming FIR Interview with Steve Rubel; FIR Conference is going to happen; from a road trip in Los Angeles, Dan York reports on Facebook on the iPhone and SxSW panels; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Google’s take on the future of blogging, how effective was the Climate Camp naked protest at Edelman London?,…
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Full story: Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs for Sept 2009
This month’s ranking of Wikio’s top 30 technology blogs in the UK is a great snapshot of what’s popular in this space across the UK. The top 30 list is a subset of Wikio’s compete Top 100 UK Technology Blogs ranking which will be published in the next few days. Here’s the Top 30 for September 2009; numbers in brackets are each blog’s ranking position for the previous month): Blah! blah! Technology (=) The Guardian Technology Blog (=) TechCrunch UK…
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Full story: The cloud is still not reliable enough
Much gnashing of teeth yesterday as Gmail (Googlemail in the UK and Germany) was out for the count for some hours following what Google called ‘routine upgrades’ to some of their servers. In a post on the Official Gmail Blog, the company explained in some detail what actually happened: in essence, some request rerouters – servers which direct web queries to the appropriate Gmail server for response – became overloaded and brought the whole email, system to a crashing halt.…
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Full story: FIR Interview: Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge
In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson talk with Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge, co-authors of Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR, now in its second printing. The book is endorsed by many influential business people including best-selling author and marketing expert Seth Godin, who proclaimed, "There will be two kinds of PR professionals in the future: those who read this book and get with the program,…











