The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #222: March 12, 2007

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #222: March 12, 2007

Content summary: Shel’s recap of New Communications Forum; with Lee Hopkins taking a sabattical, we’re looking for guest reporters; Reuters sign in Times Square to feature PR Newswire photos; YouTube, Viacom and the removal of videos; Second Life: the taxman cometh; win at blogging by promoting your rivals; Microsoft customers irate over US daylight saving time woes; the perils of monitoring employee online activities; discussion: Twitter and its potential in business; listeners’ comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show; the music; and more.

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Show notes for March 12, 2007

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Posted by neville on 03/12 at 03:40 PM

  1. I’m not sure why everyone is so enthralled with Twitter. I guess I can see how it would be useful to keep track of people at conferences and in similar situations, but to me it sounds like a great way to ensure complete inability to concentrate on anything. Interruptions are the bane of my alleged productivity. Then, on top of the drain on attention, there’s the backlog issue. I can’t keep up with the e-mail and phone messages I get, never mind read the blogs I subscribe to. And I’m just not that interested in what people are doing every minute of the day, even when they’re people I like. If listening to your podcast and reading your blogs doesn’t give me a good enough sense of what you’re up to, I can always ask.

    PS For some reason the captcha wasn’t working in Firefox and I had to switch to MSIE and re-type this.

    Posted by Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch")  on  03/13  at  03:43 PM

  2. Hi, Sallie.

    I agree, and I think I mentioned in my commentary at one of our fellow crayonistas deleted his account despite being enamored with it. He found that degree of connectivity far too much of a distraction. Like anything, though, I suppose it all depends on what you use it for.

    Incidentally, I’m in Firefox right now and the CAPTCHA is appearing just fine, so I’m not able to reproduce your problem.

    Posted by Shel Holtz  on  03/14  at  05:52 AM

  3. About the YouTube’s banning the cancer prevention videos, I’d just like to say that for a site that allows so much unuseful videos, they sure had a lot of nerve banning that. If people fighting for life are downsized in favor of a jerk who has a home made video, well they really really stink.

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