Welcome to our second weekly podcast, a 49:54-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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In this week’s show:

• 00:00 Intro - Shel and Neville on who they are, why they’re doing this and what this show’s about.
• 00:25 Start the Show - round-up of blog mentions and comments about last week’s show; the story of an employee communication audio that today would be a podcast; review of developments with blogging in the wake of the Asian tsunami disaster.
• 15:40 What’s Hot This Week - the new General Motors executive blog; PR agency MWW starts a ‘blog practice.’
• 25:20 Copyright and Blogging - copyright myths, using common sense and knowing what’s right and what’s not.
• 32:45 The IABC Chair Blog - a constructive critique.
• 37:10 New Communications Forum 2005 - what it is, where and when; overviews of Shel’s and Neville’s conference workshops; plans for special podcasts from the conference in Napa later this month.
• 44:16 Wrap - interviews coming up; how to give your feedback.

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

• Start the Show - Technorati, PubSub, Podcast Alley, Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code, David Forstrum, Mike McClary, Mark Taylor, Geek News Central, Paul Woodhouse, Robert French, Tyme White, Stuart Mudie, Guardian Newsblog, BBC News, CNN.
• What’s Hot This Week - GM Fastlane Blog, GM Smallblock Engine Blog, Jonathan Schwartz, Sarbanes-Oxley, Honda Acura, General Electric, General Motors corporate, MWW Group, Fleishman-Hillard.
• Copyright and Blogging - Law Library Resource Xchange, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, eWeek, Reuters, The Lascivious Biddies.
• The IABC Chair Blog - IABC Chair, IABC, Allan Jenkins, Richard Edelman.
• New Communications Forum 2005 - New Communications Forum 2005 website and blog, Guillaume du Gardier, Elizabeth Albrycht, Forrester Research.
• Wrap - The Tinbasher Blog, Garageband.com, RIAA, Xq28, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.

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Until next week??