Content summary: Contest continues for free FIR iPhone app; next FIR Live is August 14 with panellists that include Steve Rubel, Scott Monty and Jennifer Cohen; new FIR Interview with the Smithsonian’s Michael Edson posted, another one to come this week with Forrester’s Augie Ray; no report from Michael Netzley this week (get well soon, Michael!); listener comments discussion; 5 minutes on… BP’s carrier pigeons, the Social Media Club hits 100,000 members, why Facebook will never add a ‘dislike’ button, Coca-Cola porn Facebook and kids; News That Fits: The new world of crisis PR, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, social media doesn’t have a place in Metro Bank’s ‘revolution’, Dan York reports on high school reunions and more; music from New Bomb Turks; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for July 26, 2010: A 65-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Monday August 2…

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