Reports from the Asylum

This week, Professor Lee Hopkins reports from his office on campus, with (gasp!) no sound effects whatever. The topics of the report are the public’s obsession with numbers; water shortages in the glorious Adelaide Hills; Web 2.0 domains for sale; the possibility of a ‘mission critical’ Web 2.0 application; and live video at events.

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In FIR #233, ‘Professor’ Goetsch reports on the discovery of Podcastus Compulsivus, a new syndrome affecting both ‘Professor’ Lee Hopkins and FIR show host Shel Holtz.

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In her third report from the Podcast Asylum’s offices in the Spectacular San Francisco Bay, ‘Professor’ Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with ‘sketch’) addresses the benefits of podcasting for listeners, the UFI/Kineo study ‘Podcasting Reviewed’ and accompanying MP3 interview, Francis Wooby’s question about whether online misogyny accounts for the lack of female PR podcasters, and Podcasting Princess Heidi Miller’s suggestion that Twitter Follower Accumulation Syndrome be added to the Asylum’s roster of diseases.

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In her second report from the Spectacular San Francisco Bay Area, ‘Professor’ Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with ‘sketch’) lists her qualifications for the position of FIR’s Monday correspondent, then tackles the gender imbalance in the PR podosphere, the need to invent a podcast dispenser, and the meaning of the expression ‘Ur-Guru.’

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