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The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #180: October 12, 2006

Content summary: Dan York reports; One-Minute News: a new presentation sharing service copies the YouTube interface, Edelman blows it big-time with a fake pro-WalMart blog; a very special announcement (with more to come); a report from Neville (Edelman/Technorati London presentation; London blogger meet-up next week; the background to Hewlett-Packard’s boardroom scandal); Shel talks about Apple and the misinformation about its trademark fight; listener comments; the music; and more.

Show notes for October 12, 2006

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So, until Monday, October 16…

10/12/06 | 1 Comment | The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #180: October 12, 2006

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  • 1.Shel,

    Enjoyed the bit on the Apple kerfuffle (a new favorite word for all of us), though just getting around to post back to you. As you know, Podcast Ready is a client of ours at Topaz Partners, so I am an interested party here, but aside from that I have a couple of observations:

    Rob Walch demonstrated the immediate self-corrective reflex of social media-- where inaccuracies are pointed out and taken to account as fast as -- or faster than-- they can spread. This is a mechanism, enabled by the two (or many)-way coversation enabled by social media. It also speaks to the trust of the media-- that it is more than original sources, but the community of links, posts and comments as a whole, that gets it right. Rob did a very thorough job in interpreting the letter (once we got the ok to release it) and taking all previous bloggers to task for jumping the gun with their interpretation of the facts. Subsequent facts have made it clear that Apple, in trying to protect trademark applications (not yet registered) for "ipod" and "pod" (yes, "pod" rather than "podcast"), is going after any potetnially competing trademark applications with "pod" in the name-- not just device-centric applications.

    Another link that many people pointed to was Russell Shaw's deconstruction of why Apple is doing this.

    Doug Haslam | October 2006 | Woburn, MA

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