If you ever get a phone call from a company called PSCA International asking you to contribute an article for one of their magazines (which they call books), don’t get suckered into agreeing to do something and then finding out that it will cost you money. That’s what happened to…
Microsoft formally launched their Bing search engine in the UK last Friday. I saw a number of reports in the mainstream media on the day itself and one or two posts in the blogosphere. But that’s largely it from what I’ve seen. Maybe there might have been more written and…
If there’s one significant voice in the PR profession that attracts attention and influences opinion within the industry and outside of it on a global scale, that voice is Steve Rubel: PR practitioner at Edelman Digital, blogging pioneer, social media early adopter and evangelist, geek, re-inventor and lifestreamer. In this…
If you’re trying to understand technical concepts such as cloud computing, a resource like Wikipedia is helpful in explaining what it is. Yet even Wikipedia’s explanation is difficult for some people to easily grasp. That’s where Lee Lefever enters the picture with the latest in his CommonCraft tech video series…
Content summary: Welcome to the 500th episode; upcoming FIR Interview with Steve Rubel; Edelman launches TweetLevel while Waggener Edstrom prepares to launch TwendZ Pro; Dan York reports from Orlando, Florida; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop. What will FIR be reporting on and talking about in the next 500 shows?…
ReadWriteWeb published a detailed post today on research from Razorfish about online consumer behaviours with a strong focus on Twitter and Facebook. While the overall post makes for interesting reading and is very useful from a fact-finding perspective, what leapt at me from RWW’s page were two charts and a…
“Breathtakingly stupid” are the words used by Struan Robertson, editor of Out-Law.com, in a post describing a new law that demands consent to cookies that will be in force across the European Union within 18 months. Cookies are small text files many websites automatically store on your computer that do…
Content summary: Introducing FIR Phone Quicks on ipadio; FIR Interview with Steve Rubel coming; just ask @FIR if you want to be included in the FIR Twitter List; the next show is FIR number 500: add the hashtag #FIR500 if you comment publicly; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the…
