• Content summary: Lee Hopkins is guest co-host; Neville reports on Allan Jenkins’ thoughts for IABC Scandanavia and a UK politician’s behind-the-scenes blog; atheists take a stab at marketing nothing; Dan York reports on Podcast University and an offline blog editor; RapLeaf.com is a site for reporting on individual reputations; Dan York interviews C.C. Chapman, David Phillips reports on celebrity and spin; listener comments; the music; and more. Show notes for May 11, 2006 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson…

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  • Heading off to catch a flight to London where I’m participating in the Delivering The New PR conference tomorrow. This is a hot event with more than 150 communicators participating, from around the UK and from continental Europe. I’m looking forward to being with Philip Young, Tom Murphy, Stuart Bruce and Elizabeth Albrycht. A great team! I’ve just sent Shel a recorded contribution for today’s edition of the FIR podcast as I won’t be live with Shel. But we have…

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  • In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel enjoyed a 28-minute conversation with Christopher Carfi, CEO of Cerado and author of the Social Customer Manifesto blog, about the link between communications and customer relations, new approaches to customer relationship management, and Cerado’s business social networking tool, Haystack. Download the conversation here (MP3, 12 MB), or sign up for the Interviews RSS feed to get it and our future interviews automatically. For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other…

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  • In January, I wrote about Quaero, a planned European multimedia search engine, the answer to Google and brainchild of the French government. My own thoughts about it were expressed thus: […] The idea of Quaero is a terrific one. Yet I can’t imagine anything more oxymoronic than “government-backed search engine.” Loic Le Meur – a Frenchman – has posted a withering commentary on this oxymoron, lambasting the French government in the process. Headline points from Loic’s 10 reasons why the French…

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  • If you live in India and you’re a blogger, there’s a contest running where you can win an opportunity to travel India and blog your experiences. To enter OK, Tata, Bye Bye, as the contest is called, you register on the event website. Then, if you win, you’ll get Rs. 50,000 (about €870 or $1,100) and will have to complete a pre-determined itinerary visiting seven destinations during 15 days. To do your blogging as you travel – and it looks…

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