The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #78: October 20, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #78: October 20, 2005

Content summary: Splogs and Blogspot, questionable observations from IABC’s Canada conference, an intimidating panel, a new publisher lawsuit against Google, LA Podcasters’ Freeway Series, Dan York’s contribution, a fake Harriet Miers blog, two blogging studies, listener comments, and more.

Show notes for October 20, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 65-minute discussion recorded live from Chicago, Illinois, USA, and almost live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Sorry, no OPML show outline this week…perhaps we’ll get to them later.

In this Edition:

Intro:

  • 00:00 A shoutout from Christopher Bennett
  • 00:49 Shel introduces the show; what’s in this edition; how to give your feedback; show notes

Listeners’ comments discussion:

  • 02:53 Dave Traynor on the FIR logo (it’s not appearing for him, or us either) and the Google/Blogger.com/Blogspot.com splot controversy
  • 04:56 Lee Hopkins likes our new blog banner
  • 05:04 Sallie Goetch comments on the word “digitalization” (say it three times fast)
  • 06:24 Dan York also has thoughts on “digitalization”
  • 06:52 Sallie’s back with thoughts on “disintermediation”
  • 07:35 Lee Hopkins is glad Sallie Goetch is here
  • 07:44 Glenn Slaven with an idea for transcribing FIR on a wiki
  • 08:53 Fred Zelders updates on the OPML search engine
  • 09:22 Lloyd Grosse on Aussie references

News:

  • 11:03 Neville fills us in on why he’s in Brussels
  • 14:05 Neville on splogs and Blogspot.com
  • 18:56 Shel defends Neville’s 17-minute segment
  • 19:30 Comments from speakers at the IABC Canada conference
  • 28:37 Big-time publishers sue to stop Google Print
  • 31:44 Eric Schwartzman and LA Podcasters plan “live” podcast event

Features:

Outro:

  • 57:19 Shel reminds you about comments, show notes, and upcoming programming on FIR
  • 58:27 Shel intros the podsafe music via Podshow.com - Round One from Evan Tate

FIR Show Notes links
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are now posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.

If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com, 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 Monday, October 24…

Posted by shel on 10/20 at 12:33 PM

  1. G’day again Shel & Neville

    I see I’m going to have to add a Sallie-esq pronunciation guide. My surname is pronounced “slave”-“en” as opposed to “slav”-“en”.  Not that many people get it right first time around :)

    A couple of things.  Firstly, about the image not showing up in iTunes.  It seems that iTunes caches the feeds that you subscribe to, so hopefully it should clear that and update itself soon.  Deleting the feed and re-subscribing doesn’t seem to remove the cache. I’m seeing the image just fine in iTunes, but then, I’ve never used iTunes for listening to podcasts.

    Also, about the fake blog on Harriet Miers. We’ve had a few of them over here in Australia.  There is an ongoing blog about the Prime Minister John Howard and also for the previous leader of the opposition Mark Latham, which now seems to be abandoned.  (NSFW Language warning on these links)

    There was also a fake blog in the US pretending to be Allah (yes, as in the God of Islam) and basically was a blog mocking Islamic extremists (or possibly Islam in general, some could argue).  That blog is also now abandoned, but you can see it using the wayback machine

    The common element here seems to be that these are all set up to mock the person (or ‘being’) that they are pretending to be.  Naturally, people don’t tend to steal the identity of people they like (well, as long as they’re not totally obsessed anyway).

    Posted by Glenn Slaven  on  10/20  at  04:02 PM

  2. Just a quick comment to say I love “sprawlopolis” as a description of Los Angeles and to wish Shel and his wife a great time in Hawaii. (Oh, and to say thanks to Dan and Lee for the warm greetings and comments.) I’m sorry I won’t be seeing you at the Podcasting Conference in Ontario, but since we’re practically neighbors, I’m sure we can meet up at another time. (Why is a non-podcaster going to this conference? Well, because I write for WomensRadio.com, and they’re about to add podcasting capabilities to Audio Acrobat.)

    PS Blogger does allow you to turn on “captcha”; I now use it for my FileSlinger(TM) Backup Blog.

    Posted by Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch")  on  10/21  at  07:01 AM

  3. :cheese: I just found out that you guys played my Hurricane Relief promo on your show.  I searched for my name on Podscope.com

    Thanks and keep up the great podcasting!

    Posted by Dan Johnson  on  11/17  at  06:13 AM

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