Having a RAID hard disk setup on your server would usually be good insurance in case of some kind of system failure, hardware or otherwise, where if one drive goes down the other one has a mirror of everything. Unfortunately, not in Shel Holtz’ case last night. Shel has experienced the worse-case situation where both […]
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Online conference on social networking
Via Elizabeth Albrycht, news of an event that’s just made for anyone involved in communicating or collaborating online – Online Social Networks 2005: OSN2005 will be a summit for all those interested in working with social networking processes, tools, and media. In addition to attending many workshops, panels, and presentations by leading experts and practitioners, […]
BlogAid wrap up for tsunami aid
At the beginning of January, I made a pledge via BlogAid that I’d donate any earnings from this blog that I make in January from my Amazon Associates membership to the Dutch Red Cross tsunami relief programme. A notice yesterday on the BlogAid website says: BlogAid is now over so I’d like to take this […]
Getting generous with Gmail invitations
Is Google preparing Gmail for general rollout? Today I noticed that I have this little box in my Gmail account saying that I’ve now got 50 Gmail invitations. When I looked yesterday, I still had the link saying I had 3. And I noticed from a post by Josh Hallett that he’s also got 50 […]
The genius of Apple coolness
I had my first true iPod experience today. You know, the feeling of coolness as you’re out and about in public with those little white buds sticking in your ears with the white cables dangling down that disappear under your jacket. Yes, I did succumb to strong temptation when I was in the US last […]
Upholding PR standards starts with the small things
"Will you join with me and other PR bloggers in a grassroots blogging campaign to help raise the perception of the public relations industry?" asked Steven Phenix of The Alliant Group in Austin, Texas, in an email yesterday. Happy to, I replied. PR’s been getting a lot of, well, bad PR lately, as illustrated by […]
Hear the podcast, read the interview
During the New Communications Forum 2005 conference in California last week, Shel Holtz and I interviewed Jeremy Wright in a special podcast of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report. In that 30-minute conversation, Jeremy talks about his planned book on blogging, comments on his being dooced for blogging, and discusses his own blog […]
Netherlands hard line on immigration
The Dutch government is proposing that people applying to live in The Netherlands will have to take an examination to prove that they understand the language and culture, before they get here. Today’s Daily Telegraph carries a report on proposals that were announced in parliament on Thursday, where Rita Verdonk, the Minister for Integration and […]
Separating reporting from propaganda
CNN: The US Department of Defense plans to add more sites on the Internet to provide information to a global audience – but critics question whether the Pentagon is violating President Bush’s pledge not to pay journalists to promote his policies. This will undoubtedly be a lively and protracted debate. My question would be: Where […]
Technorati tags just work
One thing I’ve had some difficulty in fully understanding is how the new Technorati tags work. For instance, I’d regard this post as to do with weblogs. So based on how I understand the system, what I’d do is include this tag: <a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/Weblogs” rel=”tag”>Weblogs</a> The text in red is the key bit. It seems […]
Search engine to acquire Bloglines
Search engine Ask Jeeves is rumoured to be buying Bloglines, the online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing RSS feeds and blogs. Two things make this news interesting from a communication viewpoint: The formal public announcement apparently isn’t due to be made until Tuesday, but was scooped by Mary Hodder in a post on […]
How to use iPodder
This is very neat – a simple audio-visual guide on how to use iPodder, a program that enables you to manage your podcasts and, optionally, synchronize them with your iPod or other digital player if you have one. Lisa Williams has put together an entertaining 4-minute video that explains how. I followed the video and […]
Superbowl advertising is the hot conversation
So the Superbowl happened yesterday. In scanning my RSS feeds this morning, I see that sporting event has occupied the written oupourings of just about the whole blogosphere across the Atlantic. (In case you’re not sure what the Superbowl is – it’s “a football game played each year to determine the championship of the [American] […]
McDonalds deceives with fake blog
What do you make of this? Kevin Dugan writes about a website and faux blog from McDonalds as part of their advertising in yesterday’s Superbowl: […] Anyway, I dutifully visited the site and was intrigued initially to see it also had a blog. Then I realized it is a fake blog. Even the post comments […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #6: February 7, 2005
Show notes for February 7, 2005. Welcome to our weekly podcast, a 46:41-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 21.4MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital […]
EU anti-spam measures face uphill struggle
Thirteen European Union countries have agreed to boost cooperation to tackle unsolicited commercial email, aka junk email and spam. The thirteen are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands, and Spain. InfoWorld says that under an agreement announced by the European Commission yesterday, the countries’ antispam authorities have […]
Firefox NYT ad poster delays
As one of the contributors to the ground-breaking Firefox double-page ad in the New York Times in December, I ordered the poster version from the Mozilla store expecting to receive it in early January. A couple of emails in early January reported on delays finalizing and shipping the poster as corrections were being made (name […]
Skype has a problem with SkypeOut
My wife is a big user of SkypeOut, the paid-for part of the Skype internet phone service. Using SkypeOut for making international calls to normal phones saves a small fortune on our phone bill (see this example). We have family and friends in Costa Rica, so using SkypeOut to call there makes great sense for […]
Star Wars reunion photo shoot
With Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of The Sith just months away (opening in most countries on 19 May, to be exact), the February edition of British Vanity Fair magazine has a terrific 4-panel panorama foldout cover photo spread of the main stars, current and original trilogy, with photos taken by Annie Leibovitz. Ewan […]
Enabling happiness and productivity
Among the latest batch of new manifestos available yesterday from ChangeThis is this great one – How To Manage Smart People by Scott Berkun. A manager for nine years at Microsoft, Berkun draws on some of his experiences there in this 18-page PDF to provide a wide range of practical tips and tricks on managing […]