A great event starts tomorrow in Las Vegas, USA – the New Communication Forum 2007. I sit here in the UK feeling pretty gutted at not being there. I was due to participate, co-presenting a pre-conference workshop today on podcasting with my FIR co-host, Shel Holtz. But it wasn’t to…
If you want to really understand all sides of the story about Second Life as a business platform – the genuine potential as well as the current drawbacks – a series of in-depth feature articles published last week by CIO Insight magazine is where you definitely should go. Under the…
Content summary: Best Buy confirms it has secret intranet website; moves in Second Life: Danish Saxo Bank to offer trading, venture funding for property developer Ansche Chung, SL Bounty to make job hunting easier, European Union to open office; despised companies perform better than admired companies; Reuters to start financial…
Last week, I was interviewed for an article on business blogs in Europe in IFG Online, the web presence of the Istituto “Carlo De Martino” per la Formazione al Giornalismo in Milan, Italy. That interview has been posted. How’s your Italian? IFG Online | Hobson: i blog aziendali vendono emozioni
When Ewan Spence asked me if I’d like to guest host an episode of TPN Rock, the rock show on Cameron Reilly’s Podcast Network, I jumped at the chance. I managed to record and produce that episode last week and so today Ewan has posted the show with me as…
The European Union may soon have a presence in Second Life. A report in the EU Observer says that an EU office in the virtual world would be part of the European Commission’s effort to get closer to EU citizens and communicate better with them. […] “We’re looking at communicating…
Did you watch the lunar eclipse last night? Perhaps ‘watch’ isn’t the right word, unless you did spend a couple of hours just staring at the sky. It was quite something to experience seeing the moon gradually change from a bright white orb to something that looked a bit like…
If you use WordPress version 2.1.1, a dangerous security breach in that version has been discovered. The announcement came late yesterday: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of…
