This ad spot for airline Virgin Atlantic is currently running on TV in the UK: It’s one of the best ads I’ve seen for a long time, one that grabs your attention and keeps it. Once you start watching, you’re hooked. Those 80s icons! Just see how many you can…
I was in a Twitter conversation this morning with Luke Razzell about the iPhone and our different experiences when something goes wrong. In Luke’s case, he had a problem with the antenna of his iPhone. He visited an Apple Genius Bar where his problem was identified and his phone replaced.…
Content summary: Marking four years of FIR on Jan 3; upcoming FIR Interview with Jack O’Dwyer; Israel/Gaza/social media follow-up: Steve Lubetkin podcast interview with Israeli consul in USA; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; David Phillips reports from the shadow of Stonehenge; News That Fits:…
Both the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph published stories about Twitter yesterday. As a way of bringing this micro-blogging / text chatting / social network / service to the attention of a wider UK public, both papers have done a good job for their combined circulation of nearly 3…
Four years ago today – on January 3, 2005 – we published the first episode of a new podcast called “For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report.†Describing ourselves as “Neville Hobson, ABC, and Shel Holtz, ABC, a pair of communication professionals who think they have something to say, 
Last month, my friends at information portal and news search engine Wikio gave me a pre-publication look at December’s top 20 list of the most influential tech blogs in the UK. They’ve done the same for the January 2009 list, this time giving me an exclusive look at the top…
It’s been a major frustration since Boxing Day – no iPhone! From one day to the next, my iPhone suddenly didn’t work. When I turned it on, all that happened is the screen you see in the image. The most frustrating thing has been multiple (and all unsuccessful) attempts to…
Content summary: Happy New Year and Speedy Alka-Seltzer; four years of FIR on Jan 3; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; yesterday’s podcast panel on Talkshoe; the demise of Podango; Dan York reports from New Hampshire; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Demotix reinvents the newswire with…
