A couple of months ago, I met up with Neil Dixon to record an episode of the Desert Island Geek podcast. I love the idea of this podcast: Desert Island geek is a new podcast show all about you. Imagine being marooned on a deserted island, with nothing to wile away the long, hot days but a handful of your most precious and cannot-live-without geek items. Choose carefully, you may be stuck there for some time! Those precious items are a website, a podcast, a podsafe music track, a book, and a … [Read more...] about Stranded on a geek island
Archives for May 2008
Cut from FIR #348
Overflow from today's FIR #348: 1-Minute News New York Times' social networking/open API Listen to this FIR Cut: [display_podcast] Download FIR Cut MP3 - NY Times (2:58) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they're published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?) … [Read more...] about Cut from FIR #348
The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #348: May 26, 2008
Content summary: The May 24 FIR Live call-in fiasco; next FIR Live on June 11; new FIR room on FriendFeed; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore about the Ogilvy Verge conference, The Open Room, and Social Media Breakfast; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; GAP study; the micro threat to big social networks; American Airlines' PR strategy; Barack Obama is master of the new Facebook politics; PR secrets for startups from Brian Solis, Loic le Meur and Robert Scoble; listeners' comments … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #348: May 26, 2008
Suspend your disbelief and enjoy the adventure
When my wife and I came out of the cinema yesterday afternoon, after seeing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I started thinking about how to summarize what I thought of the film. What would I say if I had only 140 characters or less in which to say it? Here it is: Indiana Jones 4: weak story but a good yarn, boys own stuff. Best actor: Cate Blanchett. 2nd: Henry Jones Junior. I did think it was a pretty good film, a good example of the kind of adventure story that I read as a … [Read more...] about Suspend your disbelief and enjoy the adventure
Join the FIR room in FriendFeed
One thing we like doing and talking about on FIR is experimenting with different and new ways of communicating. And if you have a point of view you want to share with the FIR community, you have multiple ways of doing that. Email, comment lines, direct audio commenting on the website, Facebook group, discussion forum... it's a long list of places you can use. We've just added a new one - a room in FriendFeed. FriendFeed is a relatively new web service, started in October 2007, as an aggregation … [Read more...] about Join the FIR room in FriendFeed
Gremlins strike FIR Live
Things didn't go to plan yesterday for the fourth episode of FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio. Shel's posted a note on the FIR blog about our cancellation of the call-in show half way through, the reasons for which included poor audio quality and repeated difficulties logging in to our BlogTalk Radio account. Audio quality wasn't good from the outset. Both Shel and I were connected to the BlogTalk radio call-in number via Skype, as we usually are when we do these live shows. Shel was connected … [Read more...] about Gremlins strike FIR Live
The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #347: May 22, 2008
Content summary: Disney closes a user community; Neville’s tech minute; how social media affects reporters and media coverage; the value of an apology; Ricardo on Spanglish; listener comments; reports from Dan York, David Phillips, and Ricardo from Costa Rica; music from Radio Knives; and more. Listen to FIR now: [display_podcast] Get FIR: Download the MP3 file (27Mb, 59:00) Subscribe to the RSS feed Get the show at iTunes Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #347: May 22, 2008
Gordon Brown talks innovation
I spent most of Tuesday at The Innovation Edge, a one-day conference and exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Put very simply, The Innovation Edge "aims to provoke thought and encourage debate about innovation." It was organized by NESTA. It's worth explaining concisely what NESTA is as until I registered for the conference a month ago, I have to admit that while I knew of NESTA, I had little idea of what this organization does: NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology … [Read more...] about Gordon Brown talks innovation