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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #129: April 17, 2006
Content summary: Gizmo today, not Skype; FIR listener survey update; blogger relations and how PR should pitch bloggers; blog commenting, engagement and Starwood Hotels new blog; Lee Hopkins reports; the .eu domain name controversy; Firefox Flicks grassroots marketing contest; listeners’ comments discussion (about ‘fractionalizing’ and community, RSS and email, wiki material on iPods); the music. Show notes for April 17, 2006 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 79-minute podcast recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands,…
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Full story: The blogosphere continues to grow
The latest stats on the English-language blogosphere from Technorati show continued growth, maintaining the doubling in size that has been consistent for the past few years: Summary: Technorati now tracks over 35.3 million blogs (English language) The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after…
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Full story: Lots fixed with ecto 2 RC3
Writing this with ecto for Windows 2 beta RC3, just released. All the issues I’ve been commenting about in the beta forum here and here seem to be fixed. The appearance ones, definitely, and it looks like the functionality ones as well. This release candidate looks and behaves good enough to use full-time instead of just in testing mode. So maybe I can now leave version 1.8.8 behind. Let’s see how things behave during the coming days. Overall, a tremendous…
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Full story: Software testing and talking
I’ve spent a bit of time this weekend with software and servers. Quite a bit of time with release candidate 2 of version 2 of ecto for Windows, the offline blog manager and editor which I’ve been testing over the past few weeks. I’ve been giving the developers a bit of feedback in the ecto Windows beta forum. Lots of typing messages to post there. Yesterday I had a tricky concept to explain where writing it would have taken ages…
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Full story: The numbered days of traditional ad creation
Firefox Flicks, the grassroots marketing campaign designed to increase awareness of the Firefox browser, ended on Friday. Run by Mozilla, the contest resulted in over 250 30-second advertising videos being created and submitted by Firefox enthusiasts. Last week, Mozilla began showcasing some of these videos. Many of them demonstrate some really great creativity and imagination. While the contest winner will get a $5,000 gift certificate for photo and video equipment, I’d guess many of the submissions weren’t done with an…
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