Content summary: FIR listener survey update; GM launches new blog; International Podcasting Expo starts April 21; the growth of podcasting: FeedBurner report; the PR agency social media billing puzzle; Dan York reports; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; next show […]
Month: April 2006
General Motors launched a new blog yesterday, the FYI Blog. In an introductory post, GM’s director of new media, Michael Wiley, outlined how GM intends this new blog to complement the current FastLane Blog (written by senior executives led by […]
There’s no doubt that subscribing to someone’s blog or website via RSS in order to automatically receive their content each time their site is updated is a convenient way to stay on top of the latest information. No manually going […]
SkypeJournal guest blogger Jean Mercier has an interesting story about the continuing growth of Skype. Stats on numbers of downloads of the app you install on your computer to actually use the service – now approaching 300 million according to […]
Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain Benefits of Podcasting Can Bloggers Make Money? – Blogs have a lot of buzz … (Wall Street Journal) Corruption, organised crime and blogging FeedBurner Will Dominate Blog-to-Email How to Engage a PR […]
More evidence of changes in traditional marketing that will change consumer behaviours. If you think that a Coca-Cola vending machine will only dispense Coke, think again: Anyone slotting money into a Coca-Cola vending machine in Dublin may find a lot […]
In a report on podcasting to be published today, RSS feed management company FeedBurner say that their service is now managing just under 45,000 podcast feeds. Contrast this number with the 6,000 podcast feeds the company was managing at the […]
Shel Holtz is doing something very interesting, something that every PR practitioner should pay attention to. It’s also something that any business person should be aware of, especially those who believe PR people and blogs don’t fit well together. Shel’s […]
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, and Concord, California, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 31.5MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]