Content summary: Congrats to Jeremy Wright who’s joined Thornley Fallis in Toronto; FIR Live on Saturday: Valeria Maltoni joins the panel; Scott and White FIR Interview on Friday; FIR Interview with a special guest coming on Monday; Dan York reports from ITExpo in Miami on Facebook, curation, Google Docs, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, which prompts a discussion on pay-for-access to mainstream media sites such as the New York Times online and its similarity to the Financial Times’ free/pay model: is that the route to success?; FIR iPhone app coming soon; News That Fits: UK local government blocks Facebook and Twitter in 90% of cases a survey says, Forrester adds "conversationalists" to technographic ladder, open data site launched in UK by inventor of the world wide web, is content curation the next big social media job?; listener comments’ discussion; music (recommended by Kristen Sukalac) from Gayle Cloud; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for January 21, 2010: A 64-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Monday January 25…

(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)