The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #409: December 29, 2008

Content summary: ‘Get well soon’ wishes to Chip Griffin and Jason Falls; the Shorty Awards; from Singapore, Michael Netzley discusses recent events in Australia, Papua, and China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: state of the Twittersphere report, do people want Twitter to have ‘search by authority’?, FedEx best practice mixing internal and external communications; listeners’ comments discussion; music from 20 Reasons Taken; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for December 29, 2008: A 63-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

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So, until Thursday January 1, 2009…

Posted by neville on 12/29 at 10:54 AM

  1. You beat up the Hubspot guys pretty good regarding the “location analysis” in the State of the Twittersphere report.

    I suspect you didn’t read *why* the locations included cities, states and countries mixed together: “Because the location field on Twitter profiles does not contain any structured data (Twitter does not
    require people to separate city from state or province, etc.) it is hard to do any detailed analysis on this
    data.  However, the list of the top thirty most common phrases people type into their location section
    on their bio shows that Twitter seems to be popular in major English-speaking cities.”

    Adena

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  12/29  at  02:53 PM

  2. That’s kinda what I figured, Adena, but it doesn’t make the listing any more valid or useful! I think there are some assumptions that could have been made—that SF, San Francisco, and San Francisco CA are the same place, for example.

    Posted by Shel Holtz  on  12/30  at  11:52 AM

  3. Hi Guys, thanks for discussing the State of the Twittersphere report we put together at HubSpot. You raised some good questions about the report. Would you be interested in having a HubSpotter on a future show to talk about Twitter and the data?

    Posted by Rick Burnes  on  01/03  at  01:40 PM

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