Show #409 - December 29, 2008

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Content summary

'Get well soon' wishes to Chip Griffin and Jason Falls; the Shorty Awards; from Singapore, Michael Netzley discusses recent events in Australia, Papua, and China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: state of the Twittersphere report, do people want Twitter to have 'search by authority'?, FedEx best practice mixing internal and external communications; listeners' comments discussion; music from 20 Reasons Taken; and more.

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Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Michael Netzley
Andrea Vascarelli
Jay Moonah
Doug Haslam

Links

http://shortyawards.com/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10549956
http://www.straitstimes.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2d80b05bab37e110VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=0162758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_318606.html
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4439/State-of-the-Twittersphere-Q4-2008-Report.aspx
http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/12/24/state-of-the-twittersphere-hubspot-reports-stowe-boyd-retorts/
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/12/the-state-of-th.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/22/the-state-of-the-twittersphere-hubspot-edition/
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=97228
http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/12/twitter-we-need-search-by-authorit y.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/26/should-twitter-add-authority-based-search/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/27/bloggers-lose-the-plot-over-twitter-search/
http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/12/twitority-made-it.html
http://twitority.com/
http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/12/28/twitority-fires-a-first-shot-at-authority-search-on-twitter/
http://citizenshipblog.fedex.designcdt.com/node/551
http://andylark.blogs.com/andylark/2008/12/fedex-best-practice.html
http://thedailylark.com/required-reading/media-relationships/
Today's music: Something Special by 20 Reasons Taken. http://www.20reasons.com/

FIR Cuts

News That Fits:
Using blogs for front organizations
- http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/coal-slurry-blogger-brigade/
Podango heading for the deadpool, Blubrry offers a lifeline to podcasters
- http://www.blog-relations.com/2008/12/27/podango/
- http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/12/26/podango-warns-that-the-end-is-near/
- http://mashable.com/2008/12/27/podango-wont-make-it-to-2009-and-neither-will-your-data/
- http://blog.blubrry.com/2008/12/28/podango-podcasters-30-free-days-of-media-hosting/
Blubrry Powerpress plugin for WordPress?: Podpress replacement
- http://www.blubrry.com/powerpress/
- http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/12/28/powerpress-a-viable-alternative-to-podpress/

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

• Neville Hobson