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    The Second Life hype cycle

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    Neville Hobson

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    13 August 2007

    It seems that you can’t pick up a magazine or newspaper these days without seeing lengthy articles that focus on the negative side of Second Life. The latest comes from Time magazine in a feature last week. Reality is catching up with Second Life, says the magazine in its article entitled Second Life’s Real-World Problems. […]

    Full story: The Second Life hype cycle
  • For Immediate Release

    The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #266: August 13, 2007

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    Neville Hobson

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    13 August 2007

    Content summary: Recording with Callburner; Joseph Jaffe’s new marketing experiment; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; newspapers easier to read online: survey; forcing health on employees; UK print media ‘not dead’; Apple introduces widgets; company bloggers can help put out fires; the growth of Twitter (and Facebook) spam; report from Sallie Goetsch; listeners’ comments discussion; […]

    Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #266: August 13, 2007
  • Europe, Music, Society, Technology, Trends, Web

    The case for DRM

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    Neville Hobson

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    13 August 2007

    A disturbing but far from surprising trend reported by Reuters: Children in Europe are aware of the risks of illegal downloading, but often rationalize their act by saying that everyone — including their parents — is doing it, according to a major European Commission survey. Other excuses included: the download is for personal and private […]

    Full story: The case for DRM
  • Blogging, Software, Weblog Tools, Weblogs

    Windows Live Writer is a winner

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    Neville Hobson

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    12 August 2007

    Having upgraded this site to the latest WordPress version, I’m now able to use Windows Live Writer to write posts offline and then publish. The latest beta version, out since the end of May, wouldn’t work with the pre 2.1 WP version that I was on before the upgrade. So although I’m a bit late […]

    Full story: Windows Live Writer is a winner
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    Reloaded!

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    Neville Hobson

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    12 August 2007

    With just a little breath-holding and nail-biting, I present NevilleHobson.com in some of its new clothes. A bit dramatic-sounding perhaps, but the upgrade to WordPress version 2.2.2 together with implementing the new theme you see here has gone with only a couple of fixable hitches. (If you’re a subscriber to the RSS feed, do please hop […]

    Full story: Reloaded!
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