The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #49: July 11, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #49: July 11, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on credibility, trust and relationships; bloggers should ask first; get over show length; speed up the blog; iTunes and subscribing to the show); iTunes, podcasting and RSS concerns; countering a view that podcasts are a fad; the London bombings and the milestone role of citizen journalism; what African bloggers say about Live8; from Our Correspondent Down Under; the Ketchum saga continues.

Show notes for July 11, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 60-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Washington, DC, USA.

Download the file here (MP3, 27MB), 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:

  • 00:31 Neville introduces the show; how to give your feedback; show notes; what’s in this edition

Listeners’ comments discussion:

  • 02:16 Craig Jolley on credibility, trust and relationships when talking to bloggers and journalists - what’s now fair game on disclosing information?
  • 06:59 Susan Getgood says a blogger should always ask first before blogging a conversation with a friend - understanding the rules of engagement today
  • 08:34 On show length, Susan also says this show’s long and quite good - get over it if you have a problem with length
  • 09:25 Lee Hopkins wants the podcast blog home page to open far more quickly, so Shel obliges
  • 10:28 Ron Shewchuk likes iTunes 4.9 and subscribes there to this show

News and Features:

  • 11:52 iTunes and podcasting - concerns for podcasters on Apple’s proprietary RSS requirements
  • 15:03 While Dave Taylor thinks podcasts won’t help promote your business, saying it’s all a fad, Shel and Neville outline why they think it can and how it’s not a fad
  • 29:36 The London bombings - Neville comments on his experiences in London last Thursday
  • 32:43 The role and contribution of citizen journalism in times of tragedy - the London bombings are a major milestone in the symbiosis between mainstream media and citizen journalists
  • 38:42 Live8 and what bloggers in Africa have to say - cynical and dismissive commentaries, in large part - and getting those opinions heard
  • 43:07 From Our Correspondent Down Under: Lee Hopkins - on the London bombings, Adam Curry’s CastBlaster, OneNote for capturing thoughts and podcasting notes, saw-sharpening with FIR
  • 48:51 The Ketchum saga continues - their PR Week interview, Constantin Basturea’s analysis of it and how spin just doesn’t work

Outro:

  • 54:07 Neville outros the show; how to give your feedback; show notes; next Thursday’s show is #50; the music

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

Listeners’ comments discussion - Craig Jolley, Charles Pizzo, Ross Mayfield, Richard Byrom, Susan Getgood, Lee Hopkins, Ron Shewchuk.

News and Features - iTunes, Adam Curry, Daily Source Code, RSS validators, Apple, Dave Winer, Todd Cochrane, Dave Taylor, Ask Dave Taylor, Dave Taylor’s podcast post, Podscope, Blinkx, Apple’s AAC file format, iPod, Windows Media Player, Audacity, Forrester Research report on Podcasting for Marketers, Adam Curry’s and Ron Bloom’s strategycast, Jupiter Research, GM podcasts, David Lawrence, Max Hansen, the London bombings, Sky News, Neville’s podcast on his London experiences, the Asian tsunami, CNN, Hurricane Dennis, BBC News, The Guardian, Fox News, Live8, Live8 bloggers in Africa, Bob Geldof, Bono, Lee Hopkins, CastBlaster, Sound Forge, Microsoft OneNoteBlogger, Ketchum, Constantin Basturea, The New PR Wiki Hot Issues Ketchum Timeline, PR Week, Steve Rubel.

Outro - Garageband.com, Naomi Rodriguez, Special, 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 July 14…

Posted by neville on 07/12 at 12:50 AM
  1. Thanks for the flattering comments re my report, chaps!

    Further to your thoughts re why podcasting won’t disappear (because of the ‘personality’ that the voice can communicate that the written word can’t), I’ve blogged about this at: http://bettercomms.blogspot.com/2005/07/why-podcasting-wont-go-away.html

    Cheers!

    Posted by Lee Hopkins  on  07/12  at  05:05 AM
  2. I thought it odd that Shel said it was a holiday, but it seems iTunes somehow grabbed show #47 for this show. I was happy that iTunes made it easier to subscribe so I’m hoping they’ll work out some of the kinks.

    Posted by Britt  on  07/12  at  02:08 PM
  3. G’day guys.

    Just got an email from Donna Papacosta, and her site led me to the International Nanocasting Alliance.

    You might want to see if she’s worth interviewing on that INA stuff…  how pro broadcasters can capture the power of podcasting for business (i.e. revenue) purposes.

    More about the INA, Donna and links over at http://bettercomms.blogspot.com/2005/07/podcasting-gets-professional.html

    Posted by Lee Hopkins  on  07/12  at  04:17 PM
  4. Nanocasting, eh? That’s a new one. For at least the last 15 years, I’ve heard it referred to as “narrowcasting.”

    Posted by Shel Holtz  on  07/13  at  03:42 AM
  5. Hi Nelville & Shel,

    Glad to hear that Neville is safe and sound.

    I downloaded FIR 49 & 50 using iPodder 2.1 and the file I got for FIR 49 was only 14:40 instead of an hour. Neville got chopped off in the middle of sentence about podcasting.

    Any other listeners only get a piece of the file?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  07/16  at  06:42 PM

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