Content summary: FIR 5th anniversary show on Monday; next FIR Live on Jan 23; Dan York says goodbye to 2009 and looks forward to the Tens; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: how should government address information security and the TSA example of how not to do…
One mobile device that ought to be added to any list of gadgets that epitomizes the Naughties (and there are lots of lists) is the portable satellite navigation device, or sat nav for short. I first used a portable sat nav in 2005 with a rental car in Amsterdam, then…
Content summary: Comments for the first FIR Video; fifth anniversary show on Jan 4; next FIR Live on Jan 24; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the top ten stories from Asia during 2009; discussion: the ethics of non-attributed posts to Posterous; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That…
We went and saw Avatar yesterday, the film that’s getting a lot of attention for a variety of reasons since its release on December 17: the amazing digital effects, the dramatic and epic scale of the story, the $400 million budget, the groundbreaking 3D version. We saw it in 3D…
Using VodBurner, we have produced our first FIR video, a Skype call between FIR’s co-hosts. We’ll work on improving the quality, adding visuals and the like, as time goes on, but for our first effort on Christmas Eve, we opted to just use the VodBurner output as is. We’ll also…
A blast from the past that’s as relevant today as it was when “Do They Know It’s Christmas?†was first recorded a quarter of a century ago. This is a song in which a real A-list of musical talent and influence came together to record for Band Aid, a charity…
I don’t know what it is about the final work weeks of the year but it’s the time when people throw 50 weeks’ worth of caution to the wind and make predictions. In my context area, that usually means predictions about what will happen in the broad world of organizational…
Overflow from FIR #511 on December 21, 2009. Google News: Eurostar. TechCrunch Europe: As hundreds of Eurostar passengers languish, Eurostar ignores Twitter. We Are Social: A note about today’s Eurostar crisis. Little break, big difference: Our apologies. Download this podcast (2.45Mb, 6:14) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts…
