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Topics up for discussion in the monthly long-form episode include the following:L

• Are holograms about to go mainstream?
• There is outrage over revelations of massive wrongdoing by Uber. Will everyone keep riding them anyway?
• Uses of NFTs are expanding far beyond collectible artwork for investment purposes.
• How Wikipedia remediated dozens of fake articles could be a lesson for the rest of the world.
• Bad guys are extorting gift cards in exchange for removing negative online reviews.

Dan York’s report explores NFT adoption by Reddit and Snap; Instagram’s move to let creators confine posts to subscribers; Facebook’s test of multiple profiles; Twitter’s latest innovations; and mobile live-streaming with Starlink.

The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, August 15. FIR “shorts” — episodes under 15 minutes — will appear once or twice weekly.

We host a Communicators Zoom Chat each Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials needed to participate, contact Shel or Neville directly, request the credentials in our Facebook group, or email fircomments@gmail.com.

Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog. Shel has started a metaverse-focused Flipboard magazine. Neville’s “asides” blog, Outbox, is also available.

Links from this episode:

• Will The Latest Dramatic Evolution Of Holograms Be The Next Big Media Format?
• This Year’s Tour De France Features AR And Holograms
• Holograms in banking: Is it their time to shine?
• Are Apoqlar’s holograms conquering medicine?
• President Zelensky to the final frontier: How ARHT Media is using hologram technology to transform the in-theatre experience
• Holograms could soon become the next hot smartphone feature
• Five surprising ways holograms are revolutionising the world
• Uber Files (Wikipedia)
• Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
• The Uber whistleblower: I’m exposing a system that sold people a lie
• EU urged to investigate ex-politician’s Uber links and rein in tech lobbyists
• Uber Files: Massive leak reveals how top politicians secretly helped Uber
• Frequently asked questions about the Uber Files
• ‘We will not make excuses’: Uber responds to Uber files leak
• Uber lobbying scandal shows need for urgent reform — CIPR
• Can Uber recover from another PR crash?
• NFL Expands Ticket Stub NFTs to Over 100 Games for 2022 Season
• Mike Shinoda backs a startup that lets you do video calls as NFT avatars
• You’ve Been Served Via NFT: Court Gives OK to Sue on Blockchain
• UK court allows lawsuit to be delivered via NFT
• Garry Trudeau dives into NFTs, selling ‘Doonesbury’ strips in an auction
• NFT Sales Jump 10% Higher Than Last Week, Cryptopunk #4,464 Sells for $2.6 Million
• NFT market worth $231B by 2030? Report projects big growth for sector
• Reddit is launching a new NFT avatar marketplace
• What are corporate NFTs?
• Bill Murray 1000
• Should you buy an NFT property in the UK?
• To the game industry, NFTs are already dead
• 1 big thing: Wikipedia blazes a trail to agreement in a divided world
• A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Restaurants are being blackmailed

Links from Dan York’s Report

• Reddit is launching a new NFT avatar marketplace
• Introducing Collectible Avatars (Reddit)
• Snap eyes adding NFTs as AR filters in Snapchat
• Snapchat adds paid subscription with more features for power users
• Instagram now lets creators publish feed posts just for their subscribers
• Facebook tests a way to add up to five profiles tied to a single account
• Twitter keeps working on Stations for Twitter Spaces
• Twitter is testing custom timelines, and the first one is about The Bachelorette
• The FCC authorizes SpaceX’s Starlink system to be used on vehicles in motion
• My good friend recently live streamed the Baja 500 from inside his vehicle by cutting a hole in the roof of his race truck and mounting a Starlink dish in said hole. He was the first person to ever live stream a Baja race. He has now designed a bullet proof mounting system for mobile use.
• Well the Baja 500 turned into the Heartbreak 500 after we suffered a blown motor.

About Shel Holtz

Shel Holtz, ABC (Accredited Business Communicator), is director of Internal Communications at Webcor, a commercial general contractor headquartered in San Francisco. Before joining Webcor, Shel spent 21 years as principal of Holtz Communication + Technology. In addition to integrating technology into communications strategies, his expertise includes strategic communications planning, change management, organizational culture, business initiatives and communications research. Full bio

About Neville Hobson

Neville Hobson is a communicator, social strategist, consultant, digital change agent, writer, and podcaster. He is co-founder and co-host of the 'For Immediate Release' podcast. Since 2000, his career has focused on working with organisations globally to help them leverage his experiences, knowledge and subject-matter expertise of social networks, social media marketing, analytics and insights reporting, to create and build foundations for authentic engagement and to expand online reach and influence. Full bio