Not a time for me to write a weighty post on the last day of 2008. No predictions, no recommendations – you have lots of choices for those things – just some reflections on people, places and events during this year that have influenced and informed my own thinking in many ways, not only to do with my strong interest in business, communication and technology. And so I offer you my Impressions of 2008 and some influences, a short video I created with the excellent Animoto service. You can … [Read more...] about Reflections on 2008
Archives for December 2008
FIR Cut: Blubrry lifeline for Podango customers, introduces Powerpress plugin
Overflow from FIR #409 on December 29, 2009. News That Fits: “About a year ago, as an experiment, I uploaded some audio onto Podango […]†Podango Warns That The End Is Near Podango Won’t Make It to 2009 and Neither Will Your Data Podango Podcasters 30 Free Days of Media Hosting Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin from RawVoice Powerpress: A viable alternative to Podpress Download this podcast (4.24Mb, 9:09) If you want to automatically … [Read more...] about FIR Cut: Blubrry lifeline for Podango customers, introduces Powerpress plugin
FIR Cut: Opacity in coal industry blogger outreach programme
Overflow from FIR #409 on December 29, 2009. News That Fits: Coal Front Group Sets Up Dirty 'Blogger Brigade' To Fight Reality Download this podcast (1.87Mb, 3:58) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?) … [Read more...] about FIR Cut: Opacity in coal industry blogger outreach programme
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #409: December 29, 2008
Content summary: ‘Get well soon’ wishes to Chip Griffin and Jason Falls; the Shorty Awards; from Singapore, Michael Netzley discusses recent events in Australia, Papua, and China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: state of the Twittersphere report, do people want Twitter to have ‘search by authority’?, FedEx best practice mixing internal and external communications; listeners’ comments discussion; music from 20 Reasons Taken; and more. Get FIR: Download … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #409: December 29, 2008
When God asks
Could be someone’s epitaph. It couldn’t be mine: I have less than 12,500. :) Great contemporary geek cartoon by Oliver Widder who draws at Geek and Poke. Discovered via Smashing magazine and their terrific showcase yesterday of 50 Beautiful Examples of Comic Strip Art. … [Read more...] about When God asks
More confidence needed in IntenseDebate
I’m not sure what to make of IntenseDebate, the third-party comment management system that’s been managing the comments, and the commenting process, on this blog since mid November. The screenshot above is probably as good an indicator as any of the sense of frustration I often have with this system. What the screenshot shows is the dialogue that appeared for three whole days on this site last week following an upgrade of the IntenseDebate WordPress plugin. It seemed to me that the new … [Read more...] about More confidence needed in IntenseDebate
Twitority fires a first shot at authority search on Twitter
Loic Le Meur’s kick-start yesterday of a storm of discussion about his call for a means of searching Twitter posts by authority has just borne some early fruit in the shape of Twitority. Twitority is a search tool that lets you search Twitter posts and then filter the search results by authority. As Loic tells the story, Twitority came about overnight through Jon Wheatley’s need to scratch an itch (that’s my very quick summary of Loic’s post). And a good scratch it is! As you might … [Read more...] about Twitority fires a first shot at authority search on Twitter
Powerpress: A viable alternative to Podpress
If you’re a podcaster and use the Podpress plugin on your WordPress blog to deliver your podcasts, you’ve probably been having a frustrating time of it during much of 2008. The last release of Podpress was version 8.8, released in December 2007. That’s a year ago, a very long time in blog platform time scales as WordPress has released ten versions (including betas) since then. Significantly, Podpress says it works on WordPress up to version 2.3 which was released in September 2007. … [Read more...] about Powerpress: A viable alternative to Podpress