Show #183 - October 23, 2006

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Content summary

The big news about crayon; dramatic increase in global broadband penetration; the trouble with the word 'expert'; improving customer service with support tag beacons; World Bank to back content companies; Lee Hopkins reports; Edelman's reputation and credibility crisis; listeners' comments discussion; the music; and more.

Intro

00:00 Surprise! Happy Birthday Neville

01:09 Call the Comment Lines - North America: +1 206 222 2803 | Europe: +44 20 8133 9844 | Skype: fircomments

Commentary

3:57 The Big Name Reveal and the Official Launch

13:00 One Minute News

26:12 Lee Hopkins reports

34:08 Edelman's reputation and credibility crisis

Listener Comments

60:15 Dave Trainer emails about his disappointment
61:44 Rob Cottingham comments on Carmen van Kerchove and the best blog you'll never see
66:19 ...and sends congratulations on Crayon
67:37 ...and sends a blog threat level parody graphic
69:13 Tom Keyes on IE7? and Firefox
73:45 Dan York points to a post about PR agencies that get 'it' and those that don't - Alec Saunders: "Blogs and the New PR"
76:00 Wrap Up

79:10 Music - Planet of women "Waking up the neighborhood"

Links

Rob Cottingham[1]: Link to Kate Trgovac's[2] post about the Royal Ontario Museum blog[3]

That graphic:

Contributors to show notes for this show (add your name here):

• Neville Hobson
• Michael Vanderdonk
• Rob Cottingham
• Dan York