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Shel Holtz
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In this first of our new series of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, separate from our “Hobson & Holtz Report” bi-weekly podcasts, Shel and I enjoyed a 35-minute conversation with James Cherkoff and Johnnie Moore about open source marketing.

Download the conversation here (MP3, 14.6MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and our future shows automatically. (For automatic…

A lot of criticism has been aimed at Randy’s Journal, the pseudo-blog from Boeing Vice President Randy Beseler. The only thing this site had in common with blogs was the blog-like entries. No comments, no trackbacks, no permalinks, no RSS feeds. You can debate the need to allow comments; I’ve noted here before that Dave Winer, the guy who (for all practical…

The Globe & Mail is reporting today that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has laid off 35 employees from its communications group—mostly publicists—as part of an effort to cut $1.7 million from the department’s annual budget.

The employees—based in Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver—were told their work would be shifted to outside PR agencies, although the CBC will hire five “promotions managers” who will serve as a liaison between the network…

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (podcasters’ and bloggers’ credibility on reporting information; what’s your favourite tool for conductng a communications audit and why?; on not liking listening to Catholic Insider; another perspective on the Gomery inquiry in Canada); blog aggregators, attribution and copyright; video news releases re-visited; organization turf wars on who owns branding; General Motors, the LA Times and the GM blog; IABC blog…

Dan Gillmor’s short piece about the value professional journalism brings to the table has elicited a variety of responses. Gillmor points to a New York Times investigation that required a commitment of resources—personnel, money, and time—resulting in an expose. Gillmor doubts any individual blogger would be able to make the same kind of commitment in pursuit of a story.

Pete Shinbach agrees. Andy Lark is…

On its site and via press release, TVEyes—a company that lets customers search radio and TV recordings by keyword—announced the launch of Podscope, a search engine designed specifically for podcasts. The company claims it’s the first search engine of its kind, but I’m not sure of the truth of that statement, given the capabilities of search engines like 49Media. Still, Podscope should be useful given…

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