The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #61: August 22, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #61: August 22, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (Josh buys a podcast rig; no problem with anonymous blogging; big thanks to FIR listeners); locked-out CBC employees with podcasts; an interview from the CBC picket line; Share your Story success; PodcastCon UK starts interviews; IABC Belgium starts a blog; no, your email is not private; get used to hearing about splogs; PRblogs.org launches; blog advice for Adobe; WordPress challenges; Skylook success; impressions of McGraw-Hill; an OPML party.

Show notes for August 22, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 80-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.

Download the file here (MP3, 32MB), 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 a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio or iTunes 4.9, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

In this edition:

Intro:

  • 00:29 Neville introduces the show; what the show’s about; how to give your feedback; what’s in this edition; show notes

Listeners’ comments discussion:

News:

  • 15:06 How both sides in a bitter labour dispute are using online communication - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) locks out employees, who start podcasting radio shows and blogging their views
  • 21:31 Howard Harawitz on the CBC picket line in Halifax, Canada - interview with Jean LaRoche, CBC reporter, on the use of the internet as a means for employees to communicate their points of view; Shel and Neville discuss the broad potential issues (and opportunities) in labour disputes in future
  • 30:38 The success of ‘Share Your Story’ that gives parents the means to share and discuss their experiences through blogs and message boards
  • 34:35 PodcastCon UK gears up for the event in London next month, including a series of podcast interview with participants, the first interview being with Neville
  • 37:46 The Chairman of IABC Belgium Chapter starts a blog

Features:

  • 40:30 Do you think your email is private? Tom Keefe’s story on software that can tell the sender when you open an email (and much more) and you’d never know - except in the case Tom outlines
  • 46:55 Get used to this word: splogs - blogs set up as spam creators (with Blogger being accused as being the worst offender) and the means to report spammers - a new system set up by Google that’s already being abused
  • 52:24 PRblogs.org launches, offering PR practitioners, educators and students a community for blogging
  • 54:50 Advice for Adobe’s new blogging community from Niall Cook on design, navigation and policies
  • 56:02 From Our Correspondent Down Under: Lee Hopkins - on the challenges of setting up a new WordPress blog, success with using Skylook, comments soon on Barons to Bloggers
  • 62:12 Further thoughts on show #56 (podcasting from a McGraw-Hill conference in New York) - impressions and the tech issues, and the potential for this medium
  • 67:43 Shel goes to Dave Winer’s OPML editor show - and why communicators should pay attention to this tool

Outro:

  • 73:56 How to give your feedback (new email address: fircomments@gmail.com); show notes; Neville intros the music

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

Listeners’ comments discussion - Josh Hallett, Patrick Strang, Steve Crescenzo, Eric Eggertson, Deep Background, Sebastian Kiel.

News - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Negotiations, CBS Unplugged, Howard Harawitz, Todd Maffin, Canadian Media Guild, Jean LaRoche, New York Times, Mark Cuban, Charles Pizzo, Lee Lefever, March of Dimes, Share Your Story, PR Week, PodcastCon UK, Nicole Simon, PodcastCon UK signup wiki, IABC Belgium, IABC Belgium Chairman’s Blog, Gerard Murray, IABC New York, IABC Cafe.

Features - Tom Keefe, Warren Bickford, ReadNotify, Google, Blogger, Blog Herald, Blog Critics, TypePad, Dave Sifry’s state of the blogosphere re spam, Technorati, Robert French, PRblogs.org, Edublogs, Niall Cook, Adobe Blogs, Lee Hopkins, Ben Hamilton, WordPress, Skylook, Skype, Barons to Bloggers, Melbourne University Press, Feedster Top 500, Out of Costa Rica, WordPress hosted blogging service, Movable Type, McGraw-Hill, OPML, Dave Winer, Ray Ozzie, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Buzz Bruggeman, Max Hansen.

Outro - Garageband.com, A Different Rhythm, Jackson Brown, 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 fircomments@gmail.com (new email address), 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 August 25…

Posted by neville on 08/22 at 12:07 PM

  1. G’day guys,

    Can you change my link to my new blog, please? http://www.leehopkins.net

    Cheers!
    Lee

    Posted by Lee  on  08/22  at  06:03 PM

  2. Thank you for discussing PRblogs.org, Neville and Shel.

    Our partner in the effort is James Farmer, (Melbourne, Australia) BlogSavvy and edublogs.

    James has been terrific.  His launch of edublogs has really taken off in a short time.  James thinks far ahead of the curve.

    Although my main interest is bringing in students, I hope some practitioners will use the site as a jumping off point to blogging.  If they find it enjoyable, they may stay (like Lexblogs, for example) or move on to their own hosted blog.

    Perhaps the best opportunity is for educators to consider using blogs to supplement their classes.  PRblogs.org offers them a focused community with free access.  Each student gets their own blog.  Let’s hope that has appeal.

    Thanks again.  We always appreciate your support.

    Posted by Robert French  on  08/22  at  09:01 PM

  3. Hi guys, thanks for playing the comment, it did indeed sound rather awful. In regard to the right column on the website, my point was not to clarify that those are actually links to the sound files – I would prefer permalinks there which guide me to the show notes. Why? Because if I have no clue which show I want to listen to again, I have to guess when it was, go the archives and then click my way through the shows one by one. Direct links would help my lazyness immensely. (-:

    Posted by Sebastian Keil  on  08/23  at  12:21 AM

  4. That’s an excellent suggestion, Sebastian!

    Posted by Lee  on  08/24  at  02:31 AM

  5. Gents,

    As I’m up in Ottawa for the week, it’s darn nice to learn the news about what is going on in Canada from you guys… especially since the only thing the Canadian media seems to be talking about right now is…..  HOCKEY!  Yes, if you check the date, it is still August, but in this hockey-crazed nation that has been starved for over a year, the news up here is all about the recent NHL player trades and all the preparations for the training camps starting in two weeks.  I was up here for a few days without any clue at all that anything was going on with the CBC - until I listened to your podcast!

    Keep up the great work!
    Dan

    P.S. If you look at that Tom Keefe article about ReadNotify, you might notice that a comment there is from a familiar name. :-)  I put some links in there that explain a bit more about how services like ReadNotify actually work.

    Posted by Dan York  on  08/25  at  01:34 AM

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