• A brief respite from work yesterday with a very pleasant few hours of conversation over lunch with Shel, Rob Safuto and Dave Rimington at the Bryant Park Grill here in New York City. I’ve known Rob (extreme right in photo) for some time but we’ve never met before. It was great to finally meet. Dave (second right) is president of the Boomer Esiason Foundation, a partnership organization that helps provide financial support to research aimed at finding a cure for…

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  • Whenever I’ve logged in to this blog’s WordPress dashboard during the past few days, I’ve been greeted with two error messages across the top of the screen. This one – XML-RPC Error:-32300:transport error – HTTP status code was not 200 Or this one – XML-RPC Error:-32300:transport error – could not open socket: 110 Connection timed out A Google search on either term throws up some articles, although not enough to help me understand what the error means or what’s causing…

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  • Greetings from New York City! After an intense week in Atlanta on client business – plus a terrific geek dinner on Wednesday – now I’m in the very cold north-east US for the next four days for a gathering of crayons. So, now in my hotel on Lexington Avenue, a stone’s throw or two from the Chrysler Building. Shel‘s here, too. We strolled some 14 blocks via Broadway and Times Square this evening to have some dinner together at the…

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  • Wednesday marked quite a milestone for this blog – the number of subscribers to my RSS feed passed the 1,000 mark for the first time. Over the past few months, I’ve been paying close attention to the FeedBurner stats as subscriber numbers have been showing a clear and consistent growth trend. Subscriber numbers do fluctuate, though, as this graph for the past 30 days indicates: I expect the number of subscribers to rise and fall (and, hopefully, rise again) as time goes…

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  • Content summary: Introductions from the guests* (pictured below) at the Atlanta geek dinner; an FIR listener experiences GoToMeeting; John Cass invites you to the New Communications Forum in March; Wikileaks: anonymous wiki for government and corporate whistleblowers; flogs will soon be illegal in the UK; the Olympics and athlete blogging; Google opens up Gmail to all; Dan York reports on FeedShake, Lee Hopkins’ Second Life blog, Podcamp Toronto; listeners’ comments discussion; more from the Atlanta geek dinner; next Monday’s show coming…

    Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #213: February 8, 2007