Show #472 - August 6, 2009

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Content summary

Twitter denial of service attack; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; upcoming FIR Interview with BrightIdea CEO; next FIR Live on August 22; Dan York reports on the road from Chicago; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Coca-Cola launches Coke URL; ESPN and the NFL and social networking; Imedo healthcare community expands across Europe; consumers spending more time with paid content than ever; listener comments discussion; a shoutout for the Twitgigs Experiment; music from The Satellite Towns; and more (including: happy birthday Shel!).

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Thanks, volunteers...

Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Sallie Goetsch
Scott Clark

Links

http://status.twitter.com/post/157191978/ongoing-denial-of-service-attack
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/denial-of-service-attack.html
http://www.podcastalley.com/
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fir
http://cokeurl.com/
http://budurl.com/page/enterprise-edition
http://mashable.com/2009/08/04/cokeurl/
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/925131/Coke-wants-track-say-Twitter/
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/kravitz/2009-08-04-tweets-nfl-policy_N.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/sports/05espn.html
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/08/05/healthcare-community-site-imedo-continues-expansion-across-europe/
http://www.imedo.de/
http://bitbriefs.com/2009/08/04/consumers-spending-more-time-with-paid-content-than-ever-before/
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-consumers-spending-more-in-paid-media-than-ad-supported-vss-study/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/business/media/04adco.html?ref=media
http://twitgigs.wordpress.com/
Today's music: Seaside by The Satellite Towns. http://www.myspace.com/thesatellitetownsmusic

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

• Neville Hobson