The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #25: April 18, 2005

Show notes for April 18, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on syndicating your RSS feeds and what a church is doing; Technorati search on your name can turn up unknown aggregated content; on keeping up the good work; more on professional journalists vs bloggers; thanks for the mention and the cool show; considering joining IABC and is MyComm any good?); intranets, folksonomies and tagging at IBM; how effective is your RSS measurement?; quick takes on Yahoo! 360; podcasts and accessibility; guesting on the Tech Knowledge podcast; Skype’s new services roll out; blog comment deletion and should you do it?; are character blogs a complete waste of time?

Show notes for April 18, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 76-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Download the file here (MP3, 30.6MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).

In this edition:

Intro:

  • 00:29 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes; Shel not live in Thursday’s show
  • 03:43 Comments from the last shows including 1 call to the Comment Line and 1 MP3

Short Takes:

  • 22:53 Intranets, folksonomies and tagging - how IBM is developing a tool used by 315,000 employees worldwide
  • 35:02 Measuring RSS - how effective are you in getting the message out? We discuss David Berlind’s recent post
  • 40:00 Yahoo! 360 - our quick takes: easy to use, integrates well with Yahoo!, nice social networking tool, but not for business
  • 46:29 Podcasts and accessibility - should communication tools like this not be used if they’re not accessible by all?
  • 50:14 Neville joins Mike Wendland’s Tech Knowledge podcast for a conversation on communication and technology
  • 52:56 Skype’s new phone number and voicemail services launched today

Features:

  • 54:33 Blog comment deletion - should you do it?
  • 61:06 Character/fake blogs - are they a waste of time or a valuable marketing tool? (We’re 50/50 on this one - what’s your view?)

Outro:

  • 70:10 Show notes; how to give your feedback; about the music and the band; outro music

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

Intro - iRiver, Adam Curry, Lee Hopkins, Andrew Beacock, Peter West, Sallie Draper, WELS, My Yahoo!, IABC, Catholic Insider, CNN, Don Crowther, Peter West’s post on journalist vs blogger, Mack Male, MyComm, Cisco Systems, Roger D’Aprix, Ragan Report, David Murrary.

Short Takes - IBM, Bud Gibson, American Society for Information Science and Technology, Technorati tags, del.icio.us, IA Summit 2005, IBM’s presentation (PPT), Mike Wing, Lou Gerstner, David Berlind, Nooked, Libsyn, SWAG, iPodder, iPodderX, Yahoo! 360, Mike Manuel, Kevin Dugan, MSN Spaces, Yahoo! 360 reviews, LinkedIn, Hotmail, Global PR Blog Week 2.0, Eric Rice, iPod, Pete Shinbach, Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press, Skype, SkypeIn, Skype Voicemail.

Features - Shel Israel, The Red Couch, Wiley Publishers, Toby Bloomberg, Paul Chaney, Gourmet Station, Allan Jenkins, GM FastLane Blog, BigHa, Steve Rubel, Hugh McLeod, Captain Morgan’s Rum Blog, Rok Hrastnik, Fredrik Wacka, Susan Getgood, Cartman, South Park, McDonald’s Lincoln Fry Blog, Barbie blog, Constantin Basturea, FakeBlogsWiki.

Outro - Garageband.com, Macromedia, Adobe, PodcastNYC, The Girl Who Has Everything, Motherboard, 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 April 21…

Posted by neville on 04/18 at 01:31 PM

  1. Hi Shel & Neville,

    Thanks for including my comments in today’s show!  Here’s a direct link to the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) leadership blog, “Imprint”:

    http://www.wels.net/imprint

    One additional comment regarding the topic of syndicating our RSS-enabled content (daily devotions, prayers, etc.), we are currently pointing our church webmasters to the javascript feed builder at

    http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php?s=build

    Thanks guys!  Keep up the great podcast!

    Posted by Sallie Draper  on  04/18  at  05:42 PM

  2. Congratulations on producing such an excellent show - I listen to it every week. Yesterday I happened to read the April 16th Issue of NewScientist Magazine(Issue no. 2495) which was lent to me by a work colleague. To my surprise I found an article on podcasting which I’m sure you will be pleased to know mentions your podcast in the very first paragraph. The article is entitled “Software Killed the Radio Star”. You can find a portion of the article here http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18624957.200

    I will mail you a scanned copy of the article tonight. I’m sure you will find the article very encouraging and I’m sure it will be a good discussion topic for your show and blog.

    Posted by Richard Byrom  on  04/19  at  01:46 AM

  3. Hi Sallie, thanks for that additional info. And for your continuing encouragement!

    Richard, many thanks for that news. Wow! Mentioned in New Scientist! It would indeed be great to see that scanned article, thanks.

    Posted by Neville Hobson  on  04/19  at  02:30 AM

  4. Some suggestions on transcribing the show which I understand is a bit of a mission for you guys right now. Recently I helped out a friend who’s been interviewing industry leaders as part of a thesis for his MBA. He needed to record and transribe the interviews. Like yourselves we looked at a number of of options one of them being Dragon voice recognition software. In the end we ended up having a split screen between Winamp and Word and would have to move back and forth between these two applications in order to document the interviews - not an ideal solution.

    We came up with another solution which I believe could be beneficial to yourselves. We transferred the digital recording (made with my iPAQ4150) on to a mini cassette by playing the digital recording in to the mini cassette recorder (I already owned one of these but I guess you might need to purchase one). Having done this we bought a transcription machine off e-bay (they range from 60-90 pounds in price). The transcription machine we use has foot pedals and this would allow you to forward or rewind the tape or play it at different speeds. You could record your conversations in a digital and analog (tape) format whilst having them (rather than doing a transfer from digital to analog later) and then use the transcription machine to write up the show notes - according to my wife (who did the transcription) the time saving was phenomenal.

    Another option might be the use of the voice recognition in Office 2003. The frient I mentioned above tried it out recently and indicated that it was surprisingly good. You could try recording your conversation as you are having it using Office 2003 voice recognition - I understand you may have to train it to recognise your voice first.

    Posted by Richard Byrom  on  04/20  at  11:52 AM

  5. Hey folks!
    Thanks for a great show and a special thanks for mentioning the March of Dimes “Share” Community.  It is a special place.

    One quick and small correction… The newest version of Share launched on July 26th, 2005 but the original Share community went live on September 1, 2004, so it has been building membership since then. I was not clear enough about that in my blog post.

    I should say too that Nancy White and I are collaborators on the project. :)

    Posted by Lee LeFever  on  08/23  at  07:11 AM

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