The iceberg uncovered
This week’s edition of The Economist arrived in the post this morning. Not an unusual event, really, except it reminded me that last week’s didn’t show up until Tuesday because of the postal strike for three days. Which followed the two-day strike the week before. During this week, I’ve noticed more companies’ websites with statements saying that if you buy from them, delivery won’t be affected as they don’t use Royal Mail.

FIR Cut: What options for CIPR facing financial crisis?
Overflow from FIR #498 on November 5, 2009. PR Week: CIPR Seeks To Calm Concerns Over Looming Financial Loss. (Referenced: IABC wipes out deficit by Allan Jenkins, Feb 2006.) Download this podcast (2.54Mb, 5:33) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published,

The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #498: November 5, 2009
Content summary: Shel’s on his own in Toronto; how the Union for Reform Judaism used Twitter and Facebook to solicit member questions for Tony Blair’s live appearance at the group’s biennial; Google Wave and Twitter List reminders; Dan York’s report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: Novell introduces Pulse with Google Wave integration, the move from stickiness to spreadability, more on Twitter Lists including a how-to guide from Mashable, Second Life takes ente

See how far your tweets go with TweetReach
This is one of the simplest yet most useful measurement tools for Twitter I’ve yet seen: TweetReach, discovered via a tweet by David Terrar earlier today. What TweetReach does is calculate how many people have seen something you,

Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs for November 2009
Another quick look before publication at the Top 30 UK tech blogs list, thanks to my friends at the Wikio search engine. The top 30 list is a subset of Wikio’s compete Top 100 UK Technology Blogs ranking, the November update of which will be published tomorrow. Here’s the Top 30 for November 2009; numbers in brackets are each blog’s ranking position compared to the previous month: