Show #208 - January 22, 2007

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Content summary

Two new FIR podcasts posted; marketers upset about changes to Outlook; track website analytics with RSS feeds; online newspaper blog traffic grows 210%; blogger, not splog, hijacks blog content; increasing criticism of Celebrity Big Brother and the UK's Channel 4 as advertisers pull out: what does this TV show say about society?; David Phillips reports on social media on steroids; the social media press release kerfuffle; listener's comment discussion; reminder about the New Communications Forum in March; the music; and more.

Intro

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Listener Comments

Dmitri Bilgere

Links

http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624586 (marketers upset)
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/01/track_your_web_.html
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=204075 (blog traffic grows)
http://www.theclientsideblog.com/archives/uncool/caught-on-technorati/
Celebrity Big Brother -
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/19/nbbro19.xml
- http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/21/business/ad22.php
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6280957.stm
Social media release kerfuffle -
- http://blog.holtz.com/index.php/weblog/throwing_out_the_tool_with_the_blogwater/
- http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2007/01/enough_already_.html
- http://scobleizer.com/2007/01/20/stowes-right-kill-the-social-media-press-release-idea-now/
- http://www.socialmediarelease.org/2007/01/20/the-social-media-release-is-about-getting-the-facts-right/#comments
- http://www.briansolis.com/2007/01/enough-already-getting-social-media.html
- http://www.touchstonelive.com/blog/2007/01/sunday-morning-snippets.html
http://leverwealth.blogspot.com/ (David Phillips)
http://www.newcommforum.com/
http://www.springclockwonder.com/ (the music: Drive The River by Spring Clock Wonder)

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• Neville Hobson