Content summary: The 300th episode; R.I.P. Marc Orchant; follow-up discussions: live Twittering, Technorati rankings, when to release online content; retrospectives from 300 shows: ethics in public relations, corporate blogging, Second Life, developments in public relations; Lee Hopkins reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; David Phillips reports; contributions from John Wall, Christopher Penn, Mitch Joel, Eric Schwartzman, Clarence Jones, Heidi Miller, Dan York, Donna Papacosta, CC Chapman, Phil Gomes; music from the Plain White T’s; and more. [Messages from our…

Whew! We just completed recording the 300th episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report. Quite a marathon session which, as you’ll hear when it’s posted, contains many contributions from members of the FIR community to mark this milestone episode. We want to make sure we include everyone’s contributions, which means a bit more time on editing than usual. It also means this show will be a bit longer than usual. The show will be up today but…