Show #632 - January 2, 2011

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Content summary

We start our 7th year of FIR on January 3; FIR Book Review by Bob LewDrew of 'ROI of Social Media' posted, more coming; the FIR Book Club launching this month on BlogTalk Radio, first guest author is Christopher Barger; upcoming FIR Interview this week with Eric Schwartzman about AirBNB; News That Fits: FDA's social-media 'guidelines' befuddle Big Pharma; Dan York reports on the decline of text messaging, the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show, and more; Ragan promo; listener comments; three emerging technologies starting to have an impact in communications: augmented reality, content curation, HTML5?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; the world's businesses are going social say Cap Gemini and MIT; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on a lawsuit between Singapore Press Holdings and Yahoo over copyright, and troubling media narrative around collapsed property prices in China; TemboSocial promo; a lawsuit may determine who owns a Twitter account (and a LinkedIn one); music by The Scarred; and more.

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Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Paul Gillen
Dan York
Michael Netzley

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Today's music: Live Fast Die Poor by The Scarred. http://www.thescarred.com/

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

• Neville Hobson