Content summary: FIR Skypecast June 1; Vancouver FIR Dine-Around June 4; CIPR president Tom Bradley starts a blog; commenting on blogs; why Technorati is irrelevant to reputation; Apple loses in court; the art of relationship building; listeners’ comments discussion (university lecturer podcasts, more on blog commenting, the interactive press release, visual FIR); get-together in New York on June 8; the music, and more.

Show notes for May 29, 2006

Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 92-minute podcast recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.

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In This Edition:

• Detailed show notes pending

Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute – see the home page for info.

If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com; or call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 or Skype fircomments. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

So, until Thursday, June 1…

(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)