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Full story: Lacking the blogging kool-aid
This has been one of those weeks where it’s been hard to pay attention to much other than some pretty focused work. We talk about the ‘attention economy‘ and giving partial attention to many different things. Well, I’ve not had much success at attention-splitting so far this week. No time for blogging, not even much twittering. I’ve not joined in some of the conversations to posts on this blog. And don’t even mention email. I don’t know about you but…
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Full story: From the ‘would it were true’ department
An April Fool’s Day joke, but imagine if it were true – “Internal Communicator” is world’s most-desired job, survey finds Internal comms beats rock star and footballer to top spot. According to a new study released today by research company, Rumclem, internal communications has now become the field that most young people claim to want to work in when they’re adults. Once popular professions, such as footballer, or rock star, have now plummeted to the nether regions of desired jobs…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #228: April 2, 2007
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Shel and Neville on Podcast411 soon; listeners’ opinions on length of blog posts and the advantages of podcasting; Sallie Goetsch reports from the Podcast Asylum; listeners’ comments discussion; Podcamp Europe announced; the music; and more. [Messages from our sponsors: Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir. Online meetings made easy with GoToMeeting: try it free for 45 days – use promo code…
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Full story: EMI and Apple drive a wedge into DRM
I was listening to the live webcast from EMI and Apple at lunchtime today announcing the availability of EMI’s music catalogue without digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. The first outlet where you will be able to buy such DRM-free music will be Apple’s iTunes store. What this represents is an evolution of the current business model where your only legal choice has been to buy music online in a proprietary format with restrictions on what you can do with that…











