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Full story: TechCrunch adds new gadget site
If you’re a subscriber to Engadget or Gizmodo, or both, there’s a new gadget site to add to your reading list – CrunchGear. This is the latest expansion by Michael Arrington who started TechCrunch in June 2005 and which has rapidly gained a pre-eminent position as one of the most influential and authoritative sources on the net about technology and business. TechCrunch today has over 94,000 subscribers to its RSS feed. What can we expect from CrunchGear? It will be…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #162: August 10, 2006
Content summary: Podcast Awards 2006 voting closes on Friday; more perspectives on Second Life; podcast contest for Ireland tourism; online video creation study; MTV buys Atom; networked generation changes media habits; instant messaging risks; the war on terror in the UK: consequences for travel, business and work practices; David Phillips reports on how important the internet is and yet PR planning cannot cope with maintaining a crisis web site; is social networking just bunk?; Dan York reports; listeners’ comments discussion;…
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Full story: Freedom’s compromise
It looks like I managed to return to Amsterdam late this morning through a narrow window of opportunity, so to speak, given the disruption to air travel that’s now biting hard following the terrorist plot in the UK that’s been foiled by police there. I’ve been in New York for some business during the past three days (posted a few photos on my moblog), returning on the overnight KLM flight from JFK to Amsterdam. It was a direct flight, not…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #161: August 7, 2006
Content summary: Pimping for Podcast Awards votes; Neville’s traveling but Mitch Joel is filling in; One-Minute News: Chrysler’s Dr. Z campaign gets slammed and Chrysler responds on its Firehouse blog, a videoblogger is jailed for contempt of court when he refuses to turn over his tape to a grand jury, citizen media is producing new stars of the web, instant and text messaging is actually improving kids’ language skills; Starwood debuts a new hotel brand in Second Life; the fallout…
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Full story: Good stories to get you thinking
Today’s edition of FIR The Hobson & Holtz Report will be a bit different to what Shel and I usually do. The co-host for this show will be Mitch Joel in Montreal, Canada. I’m on the road and can’t do the show today so Mitch has stepped in. Mitch is a fellow communicator, and a podcaster with the ‘Six Pixels of Separation’ podcast – give it a listen if you don’t know it. I got to know Mitch in Second…











