The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #564: September 13, 2010

Content summary: Shel’s in Hawaii, Neville solo today; two FIR Interviews posted: Susan Beebe and Richard Binhammer, Dell, on chief listeners, and Kaitlyn Wilkins, Ogilvy on the Ford S-MAX London event; Karen Hoegh’s new book on podcasting is published in Denmark; listener comments and discussion; News That Fits: the demise of Bloglines doesn’t mean the end of RSS; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; the pitfalls of remote working and how to avoid them; Dan York reports on Google Instant, Facebook page browsing, RSS and more; British army commander will tweet from war-torn Afghanistan; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Ramadan, common platform for Mixi, Renren and CyWorld, and more; music from SpiceHouse; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for September 13, 2010: A 58-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Monday September 20…

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