The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #67: September 12, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #67: September 12, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (bandwidth, bit rates and listening preferences; jazzed about podcasts; answering the logo call); PR firms with no RSS; emergent journalism with PublicNow.com; IABC’s Katrina initiative; Queen of Sky sues Delta; eBay acquires Skype, Oracle grabs Siebel Systems, America West goes to US Airways; two new European podcasters; 20 uses for podcasts; 7m iTunes podcasts; from Our Correspondent Down Under; blogs that front sales sites.

Show notes for September 12, 2005

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

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In this Edition:

Intro:

  • 00:32 Shel introduces the show; what the show’s about; how to give your feedback; show notes

Listeners’ comments discussion:

  • 02:23 Howard Harawitz on bandwidth, bit rates and listening preferences for podcasts
  • 08:54 Kevin Dugan is jazzed about podcasts, gets down to ‘brass tax’ about the costs of podcasting, and makes a pitch
  • 13:27 David Becker answers the logo call

News and Features:

Outro:

  • 72:32 Neville outros the show; how to give your feedback; show notes; the music

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

Intro - Steve Crescenzo.

Listeners’ comments discussion - Howard Harawitz, Geek News Central, Kevin Dugan, McGraw-Hill, Plantronics, Audacity, Eric Schwartzman, Dan York, David Becker, Effective Edge Communications podcasts.

News and Features - Philip Borremans, Weber Shandwick, Edelman, Oakland Raiders, Stowe Boyd, NowPublic.com, BlueHereNow Technologies, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, Reuters, eWeek, Creative Commons, IABC, Hurricane Katrina, IABC Cafe, Lisa Owens, Ellen Simonetti, Delta Airlines, AP, MSNBC, eBay, Skype, Meg Whitman, PayPal, Niklas Zennström, Fred Wilson, eBay investor conference call, Oracle, Siebel Systems, America West, US Airways, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Business Summit, PeopleSoft, Guillaume du Gardier, Loic Le Meur, Six Apart, Robert Scoble, Kevin Dugan, Steve Jobs, Apple, iPod nano, iTunes, Michael Hyatt’s iTunes 5.0 problems, iPod, iPod mini, Lee Hopkins, Darren Barefoot, Sally Goetsch, Heidi Miller, Trevor Cook, ABC, Seth Godin, Nicholas Negroponte, SparkleLikeTheStars.com, Ice.com.

Outro - Garageband.com, Dream, The Fishermen, 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, 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 September 16…

Posted by neville on 09/12 at 11:09 AM

  1. Hello Neville and Shel, just a little newsitem I bumped into tonight. Perhaps not quite in your field of expertise, but I saw a dutch politician called Wouter Bos is starting a podcast. You can check the dutch-only pressrelease on http://www.wouterbos.nl/renderer.do/menuId/23074/clearState/true/sf/23074/returnPage/23074/itemId/70125/realItemId/70125/pageId/23124/instanceId/23159/ (I guess Neville can translate this?) Bottomline is, Wouter will start his podcast next week on a big day for the dutch government called Prince-day (prinsjesdag). This is the day where, amongst other, the annual budget will be announced. Wouter Bos, a leftwing politician will start a weekly podcast on his standpoints, interviews with people and other as he puts it himself “creative ways to fill the podcast”.

    There is just one thing…where is the webfeed? On the site, it never mentions a webfeed, it just says you can download the show from the website. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s not a podcast right? Wasn’t it you Shel who said that a podcast has an element of show in it and can be downloaded via RSS?

    Curious about your opinion!

    Kindest regards
    Frank Meeuwsen
    Rhinofly

    Posted by Frank Meeuwsen  on  09/13  at  12:43 PM

  2. Regarding the concept of ‘MyWeb’ and isolating oneself from alternate viewpoints and dissenting points of view…

    I’ve always held to the belief that one learns more from someone they disagree with, than someone they’re in complete agreement with.  As such, I make it a point to include in my weekly readings blogs, discussion forums and news sources that are diametric to my own point of view.

    But even if I didn’t purposefully stroll out looking for the other guy’s viewpoint - I think a ‘myweb’ scenario still offers me more points of view than a traditional news source with a specific editorial slant. 

    Most blogs I know of link to the original article that set them off on a rant.  Few blogs are without a comments section, and there’s always bound to be one comment that doesn’t quite agree.  Quite often the debate in the comments can get far more lively and in-depth than anything presented through the traditional media. 

    On the web, the other point of view is always no more than a single click away, and sometime not even that far away.

    Posted by Rob Clark  on  09/18  at  07:26 AM

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