The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #169: September 04, 2006

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #169: September 04, 2006

Content summary: The M Show‘s John Wall guest co-hosts; One-Minute News: advertisers flee “Survivor,” the rise of character blogs, Danny Sullivan leaving Search Engine Watch, Radio Shack conducts an email layoff, introduction to Gigadial and Podcast Peer Awards, Podshow touts hottest women in podcasting, BoldMouth and DMC announce joint venture; Eric Schwartzman interviews Pete Blackshaw; a Starbucks email promotion runs amuck; a Second Life terrorism follow-up; a kerfuffle over accreditation; listener comments; the music; and more.

Show notes for September 04, 2006

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So, until Thursday, September 7…

Posted by shel on 09/04 at 12:27 PM
  1. The music in the background of your podcast made it very difficult to concentrate on your show.

    Posted by Ed  on  09/05  at  08:42 AM
  2. Shel & John:

    I can’t comment on everything (and I think more than enough has been said about the SLLA anyway), but I did want to say that I think podcasting has tremendous potential for training, and I like the idea of creating videos instead of writing user manuals. I did some further research into PodTraining for a presentation on Podcasting for Professional Trainers in August and found that it’s working well for the companies that have adopted it so far.

    It was a video tutorial (basically a screen capture with narration) that first showed me how to use a podcatcher. Software users create these tutorials for each other all the time, so there’s certainly no reason for software manufacturers not to.

    Posted by Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch")  on  09/05  at  10:00 AM
  3. Hi, Ed. Thanks for the feedback.

    Hmm. I just listened, and the music bed—which is only behind One Minute News—seemed pretty soft to me. I use it to distinguish One Minute News from the rest of the show, but it’s also a pretty common technique. I admit, I’m also trying to elevate the show’s production values a bit.

    Is anybody else distracted by the music bed during One Minute News?

    Posted by Shel Holtz  on  09/05  at  03:23 PM
  4. To distract somewhat from SL, but staying in the multiverse…

    A little while ago details surfaced of acts illegal in Real Life (RL) performed in the Virtual Life (VL) of EVE Online. A straight forward Ponzi scheme (invest money and get a return sometime in the future - that return being made up from other investors money) benefiting the head of the pyramid with 700 billion in game dollars.

    Sure, this is only exists in flashes of electricity and magnetized media but questions that come to my mind are:

    1. Does the company endorse (though implication or otherwise) acts like this?
    2. How does a company respond to it’s customers when the service customers are paying for or expecting is disrupted?
    3. What does this mean for other companies that offer online services to clients? What is their duty of care?

    For more info see: http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/26703

    Posted by Michael Vanderdonk  on  09/05  at  09:22 PM
  5. Ok, clearly I hadn’t had a chance to listen to episode 169 before submitting the audio comment that was played in episode 171. Shel, thank you so much for the shout-out to Addicted to Race—it’s greatly appreciated. Especially because (as I mentioned in my Podcast 411 interview) FIR is one of my favorite podcasts. It means a lot coming from you.

    Take care,

    Carmen

    Posted by Carmen Van Kerckhove  on  09/08  at  06:03 PM

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