The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #59: August 15, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #59: August 15, 2005

Content summary: RSS, Atom and phonetic alphabet; listeners’ comments discussion (global Hill & Knowlton blogging; registering podcasts with iTunes; Yahoo’s Blog for Hope); suing anonymous bloggers; finding new voice talent; French PR firestarter; big issues for British Airways and Gate Gourmet; Unilever monitors blogs; the war against blog spammers; Blog Business Summit; challenges with trackbacks on Blogger; changing blog hosting services; upcoming interview.

Show notes for August 15, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 75-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.

Download the file here (MP3, 30MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio or iTunes 4.9, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

In this edition:

Intro:

  • 00:29 Neville introduces the show; what the show’s about; how to give your feedback; show notes; what’s in this edition
  • 02:31 Shel with some corrections from last Thursday’s show

Listeners’ comments discussion:

News and Features:

  • 17:52 A city councilman in the US wants to sue 4 bloggers for defamation, but first he has to find out who they are
  • 22:13 Finding professional voice talent with Voice 123 - could it be the resource for a new FIR intro?
  • 25:35 French fire brigade’s media spokesman lights the fires - literally
  • 28:04 Significant communication and employee relations issues confront British Airways and Gate Gourmet, not to mention PR and customer relationship ones
  • 44:26 Unilever pays attention to a loyal customer… who has a blog
  • 48:30 Moderating comments and trackbacks - is it an inevitability for bloggers in the war against the spammers?
  • 59:30 Blog Business Summit starts on August 17
  • 61:54 From Our Correspondent Down Under: Lee Hopkins - challenges with trackbacks on Blogger and careful thinking about changing blog hosting service

Outro:

  • 69:49 Hold-over topics for next Thursday’s and Monday’s shows as Shel won’t be live on Thursday’s show
  • 70:15 How to give your feedback; show notes
  • 71:09 Upcoming interview - Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek, 16 August
  • 71:52 Neville intros the music

Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:

Intro - Howard Harawitz, Adam Curry, pilots’ phonetic alphabet, James Snell, Known Atom Consumers wiki.

Listeners’ comments discussion - Niall Cook, Hill & Knowlton, Lee Hopkins, Stirling Family Church, iTunes, Skylook, Skype, Kevin Dugan, Yahoo’s Blog for Hope, American Cancer Society, Shari Kurzrok, Tsunami relief blog, Hilary Clinton, Ogilvy PR Worldwide, Jeremy Pepper.

News and Features - Blog Herald, US Constitution First Amendment, Christophe Grebert, Napoleonic Code, Geek News Central, Radio Daddy, Robin Good, Daily Mirror, British Airways, Gate Gourmet, Daily Telegraph, Transport & General Workers Union, Charles Pizzo, Unilever, Steve Rubel, Dan Entin, Land Rover, Adrian Melrose, TypePad, Six Apart, Loic le Meur, Trevor Cook, Expression Engine, CAPCHA, Movable Type, Blogger, MSN Spaces, MySpace, Dave Sifry, Technorati, TypeKey, Blog Business Summit, Evelyn Rodriguez, DL Byron, Chris Brownrigg, Dave Taylor, Robert Scoble, Buzz Bruggeman, Chris Pirillo, Eric Rice, Darren Barefoot, Stowe Boyd, Debbie Weil, Sally Falkow, Rebecca Blood, Biz Stone, Michael Wiley, Lee Hopkins, Haloscan, Constantin Basturea, Allan Jenkins, Andy Beacock, Rob Baillie, Blogsome, Ben Hamilton, SiteSell, Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.

Outro - McGraw-Hill, Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek, Blogpulse, Free Love, Derek James, Garageband.com, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.

If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz, or call the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

So, until Thursday August 18…

Posted by neville on 08/15 at 01:25 PM
  1. regarding Moderation:

    Wordpress, which I use, gives me a few spam moderation controls, in a very similar manner to how an email spam control works.  I can demand moderation if a post has over x number of links and I can add keywords that put the comment into the moderation que.

    Since doing this I don’t think I’ve had a successful spam attack, but most users don’t realise that I have a moderation system in place.

    Great show.  I really enjoyed the BA / Gate Gourmet discussion.  I have to say I’m not really sure if BA isn’t better off without the food.  As a pretty frequent flyer over the last few years (100 flights+ a year) I class BA’s food as a particular low point.  If you think the sandwiches are bad you want to try the business class food!  I stopped eating on the flight a bit ago.

    Neville, on this topic I find the Easyjet flights (well the Gatwick ones) far preferable to BA to the extent that I will pay slightly more on the same route to fly Easyjet rather than BA.  I also tend to avoid Heathrow like the plague preferring (a) London City (Swiss/BA) or (b) Gatwick (Easyjet/BA if the price difference is too great) as a way of getting between Geneva & London.

    Posted by Andrew Marritt  on  08/16  at  04:15 AM
  2. Hey guys, after Landrover, Kryptonite, Unilever it is now the turn of FedEx to be today’s Blogger-satan (well unilever wasn’t but you get the idea). Read about it on http://www.whatsnextblog.com/archives/2005/08/post_1.asp

    Posted by Frank Meeuwsen  on  08/16  at  08:58 PM

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