Thursday, October 27, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #80: October 27, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (creating a reverse thesaurus; what’s in a name: ‘business continuity planning’; more on hearing about blogs; Libsyn glitches with podcast downloads); Yahoo RSS white paper; faux research from Advertising Age; the use of blogs during labour disputes; TypePad has service problems from rapid growth; OpenOffice 2.0 is out; Waxmail for voice email; Microsoft joins Yahoo and Google with a book project; Dan York’s report; Shel’s report on the CPRF panel in New York; upcoming FIR book reviews.
Show notes for October 27, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 86-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.
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In this Edition:
Intro:
- 00:36 Neville introduces the show; what the show’s about; what’s in this edition; show notes
Listeners’ comments discussion:
- 02:40 Josh Hallett suggests creating a reverse thesaurus to help figure out buzzwords and jargon
- 03:17 Bryan Person thinks ‘business continuity planning’ is a silly corporate-speak term
- 04:27 Donna Papacosta isn’t surprised at what Shel heard at the IABC Canada conference re blogs, and says we should keep on evangelizing
- 08:07 Clarence Jones reports on difficulties he’s had with downloading FIR, and other shows hosted on Libsyn
News:
- 14:00 Yahoo’s white paper ‘RSS: Crossing Into the Mainstream’ (PDF) presents some interesting facts on RSS awareness and usage
- 23:35 Advertising Age astonishes with faux research on time-wasting in US business by employees reading blogs
- 32:28 Hospital workers’ strike illustrates the power of blogs as communication channels in labour disputes: “Strikers are using text messaging to communicate on the picket lines and picket-line leaders are coming home at night and describing what it was like that day”
- 37:29 TypePad‘s growing pains impact service to users - will communicating about the problems with promises to resolve them help retain customer loyalty?
Features:
- 48:48 OpenOffice 2.0 is out - how does the free open source software suite compare to Microsoft Office? Good, we think, but it does eat up your PC’s resources according to ZDNet
- 54:41 Voice email with Waxmail - is this the easiest audio email-messaging tool yet?
- 58:42 Microsoft starts a book indexing project - unlike Google’s, this is an opt-in system for copyright owners; why don’t Google, Yahoo and Microsoft collaborate on book indexing?
- 61:15 Dan York‘s Report - voice over IP security alliance threat taxonomy wiki, podcast solutions book, K7.Net, DomainDirect, my new experimental TypePad blog
- 69:03 Shel talks about his experience in New York yesterday as a participant in the Council of Public Relations Firms’ panel discussion on ‘Straddling the Fault in a Shifting Media Landscape: New Roles for PR’ with Richard Edelman, Stephen Baker and Ross Mayfield (session recorded as an FIR podcast for download)
Outro:
- 75:38 Shel outros the show; how to give your feedback; upcoming book reviews
- 79:17 The music - Beneath Your Surface by Elizabeth Lohninger Quartet via Podsafe Music Network
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So, until Monday October 31…
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