The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #263: August 2, 2007
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley and in the Podcast Awards 2007; FIR Interview iMeme conference podcast is posted; Rob Cottingham’s cartoons; update on podcasting book availability with Tony Molloy’s story and McGraw-Hill to the rescue; Dan York reports from the road in Florida; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; BBC puts flood reports in context wth interactive Google map; 10 things your IT department won’t tell you; Eric Schwartzman interviews Dave Friedman of Avenue A|Razorfish; listeners’ comment discussion: Sheri Rosen on the iPhone and Karl Susman’s iPhone lament; commentary on social networks and employer access prohibitions; the music; and more.
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Show notes for August 2, 2007
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So, until Monday August 6…
Dear god, Chip, I’ve been experiencing that same trouble with Technorati, and it’s slowly killing me. I have a feeling the solution might be to use Google Blog Search instead. :)
I’ve also noticed that many, many blogs are “duplicated” in T’rati’s listings, too. I’m sure it’s the same issue.
Let’s get Dan York on the case…
Posted by Mike Keliher on 08/02 at 10:31 AMActually, Eric Schwartzman interviewed Stowe Boyd on April 20th (or, at least, that’s when he posted the recording). I remember listening to it. You’d have to ask Eric why he waited so long to send in this contribution, but meanwhile you can find the anti-NMR recording at http://www.ontherecordpodcast.com/pr/otro/podcast-post.aspx?id=363.
Posted by Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch") on 08/04 at 06:00 AM
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