When it began its life as an independent company, employees of Sabre Holdings – the company that (among other things) provides flight information to consumers and travel agents – mostly worked in the same physical location, making it easy to connect and share information. Today, with 9,000-plus employees, 55% of whom work outside the United States, it has grown much more difficult for employees to connect with one another and transfer knowledge and information from those who have it to…

When the Associated Press issued a takedown notice to a blogger for citing AP material, a firestorm ensued. In the middle of the controversy was Robert Cox and the Media Bloggers Association. Cox met with AP’s Jim Kennedy in an effort to prevent legal proceedings against blogger Rogers Cadenhead, which led to a flurry of articles and blog posts containing exaggerations and misinformation. In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz joined in conversation with Robert Cox, to discuss the AP situation…

Content summary: Introducing the FIR community browser toolbar; next FIR Live on July 26; upcoming FIR Interviews; discussion: the dispersed staff; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Turner Entertainment’s multimedia campaign aims to raise the profile for South Africa, Twitter applied to blood donation, privacy challenge to Google Street View in the UK, how to live-blog a conference; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Facebook’s challenges with its Chinese-language site; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Jen Elliott;…