Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on featuring FIR, snarkiness by Business Week, having a guest host for the show, archiving and broadcasting audio input, blogs that float in outer space, audio blog summaries, syndicating RSS feeds, yet more on character blogs, doing promos like Adam Curry, searching podcasts by keywords); a broad review of Les Blogs; Apple is the new ‘old Microsoft’; lawyers start podcasting.

Show notes for April 28, 2005

Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 64-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and almost live from Detroit, Michigan, USA.

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In this edition:

Intro:

• 00:29 Neville introduces this show; how to give your feedback; show notes
• 03.00 Listeners’ comments with Shel, including 3 MP3s

Feature:

• 23:37 Les Blogs - blogging it, podcasting it, photographing it, talking about it, presenting it… a great and authentic social networking event [Technorati tag: lesblogs. Flickr tag: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/lesblogs/]

Short Takes:

• 49:22 Apple in the press and taking over the arrogance label
• 53:33 A law firm podcasts

Outro:

• 55:36 Doc Searls Les Blogs presentation; two very interesting interviews scheduled in May; show notes; how to give your feedback; about the music and the band; outro music

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

Intro - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Audacity, Chris Ritke, 49Media, Scott Solomon, Business Week on blogs, Robert French, Steve Rubel, Johannes Gutenberg, Dan York, Peter Dean, Nicecast, Apple PowerBook, iPod, NewsFire, Steve Lubetkin, Olympus DS2, Union for Reformed Judaism, Disney World, Sherlock Holmes, Lee Hopkins, Richard Byrom, Adam Curry, Thalys, Podscope.

Feature - Les Blogs, French Senate, Fredrik Wacka, Lloyd Davis, Lee Bryant, Anu Gupta, Loic Le Meur, Euan Semple, Martin Dugage, Doc Searls, New Communications Forum, Skype, Flickr, BBC, Yat Sui, Outblaze, MSN Spaces, Peer Pressure, Mary Hodder, BloggerCon, Dave Winer, Guillaume du Gardier, Blogging Planet.

Short Takes - Apple, RIAA, Steve Jobs, Microsoft, Channel 9, Robert Scoble, Houston Chronicle, GM FastLane podcasts, iPressRoom, The Williams Law Firm, May It Please The Court.

Outro - Doc Searls Les Blogs presentation, Garageband.com, Cara Luna Amica, Rebecca Dru, Alta Vista Babel Fish, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.

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So, until Monday May 2…