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Month: July 2011

  • A tipping point sets a milestone for mainstream media evolution

    I’ve been reading through the News of The World today. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought this newspaper – and the last time, too, as this was its last edition. The closure that concludes 168 years of newspaper publishing…

  • FIR Plus: A test drive of Google+Hangout

    FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz were joined by friends of FIR Kami Watson Huyse (of Zoetica), Lionel Menchaca (chief blogger for Dell) and Bryan Person (of LiveWorld) for a test drive of Google+ Hangout, the social network’s video…

  • On the death of a mainstream medium

    It’s an astonishing end to a newspaper that published its first edition in 1843 and grew to become the biggest-circulation English-language weekly newspaper in the world, with a readership averaging close to 7.5 million in 2010. That newspaper is the…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #606: July 4, 2011

    Content summary: FIR Interview with Bill Calder of Intel Free Press posted; Neville will be writing posts for the Huffington Post UK launching July 6; listener comments and FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; Ragan promo; discussion: Google+; News That Fits: @foxnewspolitics…

  • What you can learn from conference tweets and Foursquare check-ins

    I went to a conference in London in May organized by Adobe, the software firm. The biggest thing that struck me about it was how well organized it was from the social media and network connectivity points of view. Adobe…