Show #360 - July 7, 2008

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Content summary

Introducing the FIR community browser toolbar; next FIR Live on July 26; upcoming FIR Interviews; discussion: the dispersed staff; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Turner Entertainment's multimedia campaign aims to raise the profile for South Africa, Twitter applied to blood donation, privacy challenge to Google Street View in the UK, how to live-blog a conference; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Facebook's challenges with its Chinese-language site; listeners' comments discussion; music from Jen Elliott; and more.

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Michael Netzley
Andrea Vascerelli

Links

http://forimmediaterelease.ourtoolbar.com/
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fir
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/threading-some-trends-together/
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/07/social-media-th.html
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008/07/digital-nomads.html
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?STORY_ID=10950394
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/829293/CNN-creates-UGC-campaign-South-Africa/
http://www.mysouthafrica.tv/
http://everydotconnects.com/2008/07/03/think-twitter-is-silly-look-what-it-just-did/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7488524.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/digitallife/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/07/04/dlgoogle104.xml
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/07/05/google-starts-street-view-mapping-in-uk-and-heres-the-evidence/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_street_view_challenged.php
http://www.privacyinternational.org/
http://mashable.com/2008/07/04/live-blog-conference/
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/07/01/facebook-gets-poked-in-china/
http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/littleredblog/post.htm?id=63004652&scid=hm_bl
http://www.web2asia.com/facebook_is_not_blocked_ein_chinae_but_esomeone.php \\ Today's music: Captivity by Jen Elliott. http://www.citycanyons.com/jenElliott/index.html

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• Neville Hobson