The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #269: August 23, 2007

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #269: August 23, 2007

Content summary: Follow up on Mattel toy recall crisis; Dan York reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Verizon, Starbucks and Comcast PR blunders; the Skype outage clarified; WalMart on Facebook; US intelligence community launches A-Space, an internal social network; listeners’ comments discussion including advice on moving blogs from TypePad to WordPress; the music; and more.

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Show notes for August 23, 2007

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So, until Monday August 27…

Posted by neville on 08/23 at 12:08 PM

  1. Hey - just letting you know I’m not able to download the newest episode through iTunes or directly from you site… (“network connection cannot be made”)

    Posted by christopher  on  08/24  at  03:33 PM

  2. Christopher, the problem was a DNS misconfiguration at Libsyn, the podcast service that hosts FIR (and thousands of other podcasts). It should be resolved by now. For more information on the issue, take a look at the two Libsyn support blog posts:

    http://support.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=248560
    http://support.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=248738

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