Regular readers of this blog know that I love gadgets especially mobile devices. Over the past few years, I’ve had great enjoyment from a wide range of devices – ones I’ve either purchased myself or which have been given or loaned to me by companies via their PR agencies – which I’ve written posts or produced video reviews about, recently over on Next, my tech blog. The latest device I have for such a purpose is an iPhone 3G which arrived by courier late on Friday evening, thus … [Read more...] about Getting to know the iPhone 3G
Archives for November 2008
Contemporary suits Ferrero
One of the people I encountered in Barcelona during this past week, where I chaired the New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy conference (about which a post soon), was Guillaume du Gardier, pictured in a photo I took on Wednesday evening. I’ve known Guillaume since 2004, one of my earliest connections from mutual interests founded largely on blogging. We worked together during most of 2005, along with Elizabeth Albrycht, in Blogging Planet. So seeing Guillaume again in … [Read more...] about Contemporary suits Ferrero
Has a tipping point arrived for Twitter?
A lot of people have being doing a lot of writing about Twitter during the past week. I’m not referring specifically to the awful events in Mumbai, India, where Twitter played a significant role in rapidly connecting online people with information (even if it was hard to really judge the ultimate value of some of that information as CNN’s “Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai†highlights), which I’m sure drove thousands of people to start twittering from their … [Read more...] about Has a tipping point arrived for Twitter?
A politician’s arrogance or ignorance
Here’s an extraordinary tale from Robin Wauters of a prominent politician’s cavalier attitude to public funds and contempt for people’s opinions. As described by Robin, the story is about Belgian Minister of Defence Pieter De Crem, pictured above, whose recent junket to New York for a meeting at the UN that never actually happened involved a visit to a Belgian bar, barmaid Nathalie with a critical blog post, subsequent alleged pressure to fire the barmaid, commentary from Belgian bloggers … [Read more...] about A politician’s arrogance or ignorance
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #401: November 27, 2008
Content summary: An extra-hefty holiday episode; Happy Thanksgiving to our listeners in the US; Neville is at the “New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy†conference in Barcelona (which he is chairing) while Shel is with family in Las Vegas for the holiday; the Chuck Hester interview about LinkedIn is available; Dan York reports; more congratulatory messages on episode 400, including one from our former weekly correspondent, Lee Hopkins; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #401: November 27, 2008
Getting social in Barcelona
A pre crack-of-dawn flight from Gatwick tomorrow will take me to Barcelona, Spain, and the New Media in Marketing & Communications Strategy conference that starts tomorrow Wednesday November 26 and runs through the end of Thursday November 27. The event is organized by Icon Events International, an event organizer based in Barcelona. This is my first relationship with them and I’m looking forward to meeting Niall and David for the first time. I’ll be there as conference chair which … [Read more...] about Getting social in Barcelona
Spam blogging by any other name
I’m sure there will be some people who sign up for WordPressDirect who will do so thinking it presents a quick and easy way to crank out blog posts with minimum effort. Looking through the website, though, it seems to me that the service is more likely to appeal to people who care little for copyright and recognition of the intellectual property rights of others, given that a major aspect of its ease of use is that it will suck in content from almost any RSS feed for republishing. So no … [Read more...] about Spam blogging by any other name
FIR Interview: Chuck Hester, iContact, on tapping into the power of LinkedIn
LinkedIn, the business social network, has surged to 30 million profiles, most of them for business people with titles of director or higher. Still, a lot of people get their LinkedIn accounts, expand their networks, then wonder what to do with it. Chuck Hester, communications director for email company iContact, is a LinkedIn power user and author of an upcoming book on the social network. In this FIR Interview, Chuck explores the various ways LinkedIn can serve a communicator in his or her … [Read more...] about FIR Interview: Chuck Hester, iContact, on tapping into the power of LinkedIn