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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #199: December 18, 2006

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18 December 2006

Content summary: CaseCamp Second Life review; Lee Hopkins reports; traditional media far from dead, says Ketchum/USC media usage survey; Circuit City opens store in Second Life; Nick Denton on last days of the media embargo; Edelman and NewsGator to create branded communities and conversational advertising; HP, Dell, IBM engage in competitive dialogue through blogs; PayPerPost now requires disclosure; David Phillips reports; NBC/iVillage ‘Girls Night Out’ in Second Life; listeners’ comments discussion; show #200 is on Thursday; no show on Christmas…
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Europe, Events, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Technology, Web

Filling the TechCrunch UK void

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18 December 2006

It’s nearly a week since Le Web 3 in Paris and it’s still hard to find any meaningful commentary about the event that isn’t overshadowed by talk about the political hijacking of the two-day conference. Much blog commentary late last week focused on the firing of Sam Sethi, co-editor of TechCrunch UK, by TechCrunch supremo Michael Arrington and the simultaneous suspension of the UK site. Shel and I discussed this in FIR #198 last Thursday. The latest development I’ve seen*…
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Business, Headlines, Technology

Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 18-Dec-06

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18 December 2006

CEOs in the Slammer Cisco — not apple — announces iPhone branded VoIP phones Denmark ‘best EU economy’ Getting Paid to Be Social Google Starts Selling Domains For $10 Per Year Nine Socially Irresponsible Companies Reuters and trust Second Life – Just say no! Sex Surfing at Work: Employers Need Protection Skype founders to offer web TV Slashdot: Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft? The embargo is dead? Not so fastâ€¦ The Thing About European Men Thoughts on a meme Unsigned…
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Blogging, Experiences

The 5 things tag

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18 December 2006

I thought I might escape this one, but Martyn Davies tagged me in the ‘Five Things You Don’t Know About Me’ game that’s been doing the rounds of the blogosphere during the past week. So here goes… Not only was I at the premiere in London of the original Star Wars film in December 1977, I went back and saw it again the very next night. Dominion Tottenham Court Road, if my memory serves. At boarding school in the UK…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #198: December 14, 2006

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14 December 2006

Content summary: FIR continues twice a week in 2007; CaseCamp Second Life today; thanks to Tyler Leisher; John Stauffer asks for thoughts on how to engage with less-than-interested public relations co-workers about social media; the irrelevance of the page view; community websites take the wiki path with Wikia.com; Socialtext Unplugged for offline wiki working; New York Times adds Digg to online articles; Le Web 3 meltdown and the firing of the TechCrunch UK co-editor Sam Sethi; PR gaming of Digg;…
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