Show #572 - November 8, 2010

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Content summary

FIR Interview with Tom Webster coming; Neville finally met Scott Monty in London; Technorati's 2010 State of the Blogosphere report is out; latest IABC Cafe2Go podcast features interview with Melissa Dark, 2011 Gold Quill Awards Chair; listener comments and discussion; News That Fits: MIT finds astroturfing prevalent on Twitter, Qantas Airbus Rolls-Royce Engines and social media, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, Dan York reports on topical technology, is having a social media policy enough to avoid legal problems?, Gartner to CEOs: seize the iPad opportunity now, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the Amazon Kindle in China and more; Neville is at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in France this week; music from Rob Skane; and more.

Time Codes Here!

Thanks, volunteers...

• 0:00 - Intro
• 0:26 - Opening comments
  • FIR Interview with Tom Webster coming;
  • 1:43 - Neville finally met Scott Monty in London (Ford Motor Company)
  • 2:42 - Technorati's 2010 State of the Blogosphere report is out
  • 3:28 - Latest IABC Cafe2Go? podcast features interview with Melissa Dark
  • 2011 Gold Quill Awards Chair
• Listener comments and discussion
  • 5:32 Bob Crashaw - Audio comment
  • 8:15 Donna Papacosta's blog
  • 8:52 - William Debauchez - Audio comment
  • 11:05 - Keith Trivitt - fake PR
• 13:35 - Message from Ragan Communications
• 14:37 News That Fits - Intro
  • 15:11 - MIT finds astroturfing prevalent on Twitter
  • 21:30 - Quantas Airbus, Rolls-Royce Engines and social media
• 37:20 - Message from the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop?
• 38:26 - Dan York reports on Silverlight, Cook Source, Rock Melt, topical technology, HTML5? test site
• 43:35 - Neville's and Shel's response to Dan's report
• 45:10 - Is having a social media policy enough to avoid legal problems? (AMR / NLRB incident)
• 49:25 - Gartner to CEOs?: seize the iPad opportunity now
• 55:20 - Message from Pollstream
• 56:45 - Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the Amazon Kindle in China; texting in the Philipines;
• 1:01:55 - Neville's and Shel's comments on Michael's report
• 1:02:58 Closing comments
• 1:03:22 - Closing messages
• 1:04:33 Neville is at Gartner ITxpo? in France this week
• 1:04:57 Music: Girl Next Door, from Rob Skane
• 1:07:38 - End

Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Bob Crawshaw
Donna Papacosta
William Debauchez
Keith Trivitt
Dan York
Michael Netzley
FIR Friendfeed Room round-up

Links

http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/
http://cafe2go.x.iabc.com/2010/11/07/cafe2go-63-interview-with-melissa-dark-abc/
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26666/
http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/qantas-fails-to-use-its-social-media-resources-in-emergency-response_b8290?c=rss
http://www.tnooz.com/2010/11/04/news/qantas-a380-incident-a-lesson-in-social-media-and-web-pr/
http://blog.escherman.com/2010/06/06/rolls-royce-corporate-comms-director-%E2%80%9Csocial-media-is-a-complete-waste-of-time%E2%80%9D/
http://www.google.co.uk/finance?client=ob&q=LON:RR
http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/disruptions/global/en
http://www.airbus.com/crisis/statement2-qf32/
http://www.rolls-royce.com/civil/news/2010/101104_statement_qantas_qf32.jsp
http://bit.ly/dgjcWK
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1462813
http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-live/
Today's Music: Girl Next Door by Rob Skane. http://www.robskane.net/

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

• Neville Hobson