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Content summary: First podcast for the Social Media Club; suggestions on show length and an experiment; International Herald Tribune podcasts; Charmin’s rude UK viral campaign; American Management Association’s email, IM and blog survey only looks at the dark side; WSUN Technologies’ bold response to blog copyright infringements; David Phillips reports on Second Life now; PR grassroots anti-astroturfing campaign launched; listeners’ comments discussion; FIR Frappr…

It’s scary when the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation—the committee with oversight of telecommunications, the committee that is addressing the Net neutrality question—displays a remarkable degree of ignorance about the nature of the Net itself. If you haven’t listened to Rob Walch’s Podcast411 interview with Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alasaka), it’s an eye-opener (well, at least an ear-opener).

The folks over at “

imageAn email from Trevor Cook alerted me to a campaign Trevor and Paull Young are undertaking to fight the scourge of astroturfing. Young has created a campaign home page on The New PR wiki, and he and Erin Caldwell have developed the logo you see here, and in the affiliations section of this blog’s left-hand column.

I’m more than happy to support…

A number of people—including some who have posted comments to this blog, as well as Steve Rubel’s—have expressed indignation and suspicion over the fact that their comments posted to Dell’s brand-spanking-new blog have not appeared. One commenter to this blog suspected Dell of engaging only A-list bloggers.

Today, Dell’s Digital Media Manager, Lionel Menchaca, posted an item to one2one explaining the comment process. Essentially, most…

A few weeks back, I joined a Google Groups list of communicators interested in participating in a discussion about the evolution of the new-media press release. That list is up to about 50 participants, but there hasn’t been much activity lately. I was delighted to get a call a few days back from Chris Heuer, who invited me to participate in an…

Content summary: New FIR interview; MyChingo on FIR site; updates: Jupiter Research and the bloggers, reactions to Dell’s blog; PR Newswire launches podcasts; Dan York reports; capture the conversation; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.

Show notes for July 13, 2006

download For Immediate Release podcast

Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 93-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, Callifornia, USA, and…

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