Content summary: Happy New Year and Speedy Alka-Seltzer; four years of FIR on Jan 3; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; yesterday’s podcast panel on Talkshoe; the demise of Podango; Dan York reports from New Hampshire; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Demotix reinvents the newswire with UGC, Israel’s social media assault, 10 reasons why journalism schools should get rid of PR, Consumers Union to buy Gawker blog “Consumerist”; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Grace Potter and…

Overflow from FIR #409 on December 29, 2009. News That Fits: “About a year ago, as an experiment,  I uploaded some audio onto Podango […]” Podango Warns That The End Is Near Podango Won’t Make It to 2009 and Neither Will Your Data Podango Podcasters 30 Free Days of Media Hosting Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin from RawVoice Powerpress: A viable alternative to Podpress Download this podcast (4.24Mb, 9:09) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe…

Overflow from FIR #409 on December 29, 2009. News That Fits: Coal Front Group Sets Up Dirty ‘Blogger Brigade’ To Fight Reality Download this podcast (1.87Mb, 3:58) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)

Content summary: ‘Get well soon’ wishes to Chip Griffin and Jason Falls; the Shorty Awards; from Singapore, Michael Netzley discusses recent events in Australia, Papua, and China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: state of the Twittersphere report, do people want Twitter to have ‘search by authority’?, FedEx best practice mixing internal and external communications; listeners’ comments discussion; music from 20 Reasons Taken; and more. Get FIR: Download the MP3 file (28.6Mb, 62:34) Subscribe to the RSS…