Show #209 - January 25, 2007

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Content summary

Discussion topics from listeners: PR is too important for PR people, blogs in China affect Starbucks, win a place at the New Communications Forum; Dan York reports further on RSS autodiscovery and commentary on trackback spam; communication challenges for British Airways as strike looms; Microsoft's attempt to correct a Wikipedia entry; AdvestiGate 'fingerprint' system to scan website video and audio; GM's blogger outreach programme; World Economic Forum: CEOs should blog; the music; and more.

Intro

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Listener Comments

Craig Jolley
Carmen van Kerckhove
Michael Kelliher

Links

http://www.internetviz-newsletters.com/cincom/e_article000731455.cfm?x=b8R9L5h,b2WhSbyl (PR)
http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/asiaview/displayStory.cfm?story_id=8581710&fsrc=RSS (blogs in China)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116915263418380626.html (blogs in China)
http://www.providentpartners.net/forum/
http://www.newcommforum.com/
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/ (Dan York)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6297059.stm (BA strike)
http://bapress.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bapress.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=&p_lva=&p_faqid=7320 (BA statement)
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/flightops/public/en_gb
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/24/tech/main2392719.shtml (Microsoft/Wikipedia)
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/1/23/6733
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11119 (Microsoft/Wikipedia)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/25/microsofts-v-wikipedia-round-2/
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/63e8392e-a99d-11db-9185-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=81cea682-52a8-11da-8d05-0000779e2340.html (fingerprint)
http://newpersuasion.typepad.com/new_persuasion/2007/01/blogger_relatio.html
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8580521 (blogging CEOs)
http://www.davosconversation.org/
http://wef.typepad.com/blog/

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• Neville Hobson