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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #154: July 13, 2006
Content summary: New FIR interview; MyChingo on FIR site; updates: Jupiter Research and the bloggers, reactions to Dell’s blog; PR Newswire launches podcasts; Dan York reports; capture the conversation; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more. Show notes for July 13, 2006 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 93-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, Callifornia, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 37.4MB), or sign up for the RSS…
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Full story: Microsoft, Yahoo… and Skype?
Yesterday’s announcement from Microsoft and Yahoo! on the inter-operability between their instant messengers is a good step forward in making it even easier for people to communicate via the net: Consumers worldwide from Microsoft and Yahoo! will be able to take advantage of IM interoperability and join the limited public beta program. They will be among the first to exchange instant messages across the free services as well as see their friends’ online presence, view personal status messages, share select…
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Full story: Podcasting apples and lemons
Nielsen Netratings issued a press release yesterday (PDF) with some interesting stats on podcasting in the US. Here’s how it starts: […] 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast; 4.0 percent, or 5.6 million Web users, have recently downloaded a video podcast. These figures put the podcasting population on a par with those who publish blogs, 4.8 percent, and online daters, 3.9 percent. Um, podcast listeners on a…
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Full story: WSUNTech: Don’t steal my content
I’ve just sent my first formal ‘cease and desist’ request to a company that appears to be ripping off my content and publishing it as if it were their own. Maybe ‘cease and desist’ isn’t the right phrase (I’m not a lawyer) but the polite email I’ve sent (full text below) is designed to achieve the same thing – have the company remove my content forthwith from their site. Like many bloggers, I encounter other sites that re-post some of…
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Full story: TypePad outage again
Nearly three hours later and I’m still seeing this error message every time I try and leave a comment on a TypePad blog: Blogs themselves seem to be working ok; it’s when you click the comment submit button that you then get the error page. Very frustrating if you’ve typed a lengthy comment. So, Simon, here’s my (brief) comment to your post “Open reply (obviously!) to Colin Farrington’s comments at PR Voice“: “I find Colin’s stubborn ignorance depressing truly sad…











