Podcasting described simply

When explaining podcasting to people who don’t know what it is, how do you describe it? I’ve tended to rely on the relatively complex Wikipedia definition or this one on Webopedia: Podcasting is similar in nature to RSS, which allows subscribers to subscribe to a set of feeds to view syndicated website content. With podcasting […]

Hidden dangers with public Wi-Fi

It’s becoming a common thing to see people sitting in public places – train stations, airports, the local Starbucks – with their laptops, doing their email or writing their blogs, or any manner of things that they’d do when in the office or at home. How do you know that the wi-fi network you’ve connected […]

Top 100 RSS feeds

Blogging service Radio Userland has a very useful list of the top 100 most subscribed-to RSS feeds. A handy one-stop place to sign up for all the good ones instead of having to seek out all the invidual sites. Radio Community Server | Top 100 Most-Subscribed-To RSS Feeds If you’re a business blogger, especially if […]

PeopleSoft job seekers try eBay

After a team of in-house creatives was displaced following Oracle’s acquisition of PeopleSoft, the group turned to eBay to try and find work, a report by Fast Company says. Not as individual job seekers, however, but as a complete team. According to a post on AdFreak, AdWeek’s blog, the team wanted to continue working together, […]

The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #4: January 24, 2005

Show notes for January 24, 2005. Welcome to our weekly podcast, a 57:25-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 24.9MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For this, you’ll need ipodder, software that lets you […]

The Hobson & Holtz Report – RSS Special Edition – January 26, 2005

Welcome to a the RSS Special Edition of the Hobson & Holtz Report, a 23-minute conversation recorded live at the New Communications Forum 2005 in Napa, California, USA, on January 26, 2005. In this show, we interview Fergus Burns, CEO of Hookable Media Ltd, the creator of Nooked, the RSS service for corporate communications. Listen […]

EPIC: The age of participatory communication

I’m blogging in the keynote presentation being given by Andy Lark that starts the second day of the New Communications Forum 2005. Andy advocates how the age of participatory communication that has already dawned will change forever the way we communicate. To illustrate this, he presents EPIC, an 8-minute video showing a concept of what […]

Panel discussion: Blogging and journalism

Highlight points from the panel – pictured, left to right: Dan Forbush, Tom Foremski, Jeremy Wright, Heath Row – moderated by Dan Forbush. The panel addressed the impact of blogs on their work, their general view on the value of blogs as a communication channel, and how best to promote their blogs. Tom: Blogs are […]

The Hobson & Holtz Report – Jeremy Wright Interview – January 27, 2005

Welcome to a the second Special Edition of the Hobson & Holtz Report, a 30-minute conversation with Jeremy Wright recorded live at the New Communications Forum 2005 in Napa, California, USA, on January 27, 2005. A high-profile business blogger, Jeremy authors the Ensight blog and is now focused on building his new venture, Inside Blogging. […]

The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #5: January 31, 2005

Show notes for January 31, 2005. Welcome to our weekly podcast, a 71:55-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 33.7MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For this, you’ll need ipodder, software that lets you […]

Shel’s offline but still doing business

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 […]

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, […]