Following recent news that the Financial Times and The Economist now offer RSS feeds comes more news on other media developments with RSS. Steve Rubel reports that the Associated Press offers 17 RSS feeds. This is the first time AP stories are available directly on the web in RSS as opposed to running through Yahoo […]
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Communicators give top marks to GM
On Monday, Shel and I interviewed Michael Wiley of General Motors in our bi-weekly podcast show on business communication and technology. During our conversation with Michael, we discussed a wide range of topics – the GM FastLane Blog, GM’s experiments with podcasting and GM’s plans for further developments with communication channels like blogs, podcasting and […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #10: February 24, 2005
Show notes for February 24, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 54:14-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Chicago, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 22MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your […]
Citizen broadcasting demonstrated
Jeff Jarvis has a great illustration on how easy it is for anyone to participate in broadcast communication: Who needs a multimillion-dollar studio? What you see above is the blogcast studio: A Logitech laptop camera atop my screen; the screen atop a box to get it to eye-level; notes for the spiels taped to the […]
CeBIT provides opportunies for engagement
A new wireless network roaming service will be available to visitors attending the annual CeBIT technology trade show in Hanover, Germany, from 10-16 March, InfoWorld reports. T-Systems International, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom, will provide a roaming service to subscribers of wireless network operators connected to its international roaming system, according to Christian […]
Domain mapping headaches
Last weekend, I set up domain mapping for my blogs and photo albums on TypePad. It means, for instance, that the address for this blog will be www.nevon.net and not nevon.typepad.com (although the current one will still continue to work). Both of these work right now because the new address was set up a while […]
Nooked launches searchable directory of corporate RSS feeds
Nooked, the creator of an online RSS service for publishing and measuring corporate news in RSS feeds, launched the beta version of a searchable directory of corporate RSS feeds on Friday. The Nooked RSS Directory provides a free, easy way to search for corporate RSS feeds by keyword or category. It indexes RSS feeds in […]
Online media changes traditional demographics
The latest entrant to the world of blogs by mainstream media made its debut yesterday – The Observer newspaper in the UK has a blog. Not only a blog, but podcasts too. The Observer and The Guardian (which owns The Observer) are the only two national newspapers in the UK with blogs. And podcasts. Before […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #11: February 28, 2005
Show notes for February 28, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 25MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with […]
It’s about the communication, not the technology
Today marks the beginning of a new venture that brings together four European-based communication professionals to offer organizations something a little different in the field of communication consulting and communication technology. Elizabeth Albrycht, Christophe Ducamp, Guillaume du Gardier and myself have formed Blogging Planet, a new consultancy designed to help companies in Europe and the […]
Skype approaches a crossroads
Is Skype reaching a sort of crossroads with its internet phone service in terms of customer satisfaction? Quite a few people think so, it seems. So perhaps I should really say – customer dissatisfaction. I’ve commented recently on the poor service with SkypeOut, which looks as though it’s at the heart of the many and […]
Blogs keep your customers coming back
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal looks at blogs as an ideal tool to not only drive customers to your online presence but also give them good reasons to keep coming back. The Journal’s story is filled with case studies of successes, a great reference if you’re looking for hard evidence that blogs are […]
Microsoft brings in outside marketing expert for Longhorn
The Financial Times reports today that Microsoft has hired Michael Sievert, a marketing expert who was most recently chief marketing officer of AT&T Wireless, to be in charge of bringing Longhorn to market. Longhorn is the next generation of the Windows operating system, much delayed and now widely expected to be delivered in 2006. The […]
Technorati searchlet broken
I started testing the new Technorati searchlet in January. This is a bit of code you stick on your blog that gives you a Technorati-based search capability for your blog. It’s at the top right of this page, just beneath the regular search box. I”m actually not sure how it works compared to the Google-based […]
Phone companies feeling the pinch from VoIP
BBC News: Dutch phone company KPN has announced plans to cut 8,000 jobs over the next five years after it reported a sharp drop in annual profits. The firm made a pre-tax profit of 1.84bn euros (£1.26bn) in 2004, down from 2.25bn euros in 2003. […] The company’s chief executive Ad Scheepbouwer said the redundancies […]
Good for your… er, health
News via irrepressible columnist John Dvorak of the latest aid to healthy and safe computer practice – the busty mousepad. Wonderful product description on the vendor’s website, ChestRest (love the name!): Kannazuki Mai, from the hentai series G-Taste illustrated by the artist Yagami Hiroaki is now immortalized in busty mouse pad form. Let her ample […]
Connections create value from content
"Show me the content!" asks Joël Céré in response to our announcement yesterday on the launch of Blogging Planet. He refers to this text in the description of the corporate consulting services that Blogging Planet offers: […] it is the medium – the network you build – that matters, not the message – the content. […]
A short break
A couple of posts today to follow this one, then a blogging break until the weekend. The show notes for today’s edition of the Hobson & Holtz Report bi-weekly podcast will be up on the podcast blog and on Shel’s blog as usual later today once the show’s been done (after about 8pm Central EuropeanTime); […]
Firefox extensions add great functionality
One of the great things about Firefox is the vast range of extensions you can add it to. These are little applications that you install into the browser which give you some great additional functionality. My two current favourites are Tab Browser Preferences (adding enhanced control over what you can do with tabs) and Spellbound […]
Observer blog is just the start
The Observer newspaper in the UK started a blog last weekend, as I commented on earlier this week. Interesting snippet about what may be coming next (and probably for The Guardian, too, which owns The Observer) from Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing, recounting discussion he had with Ben Hammersley, the journalist responsible for the blog’s […]