Constantin Basturea has put together an excellent resources page on The New PR Wiki listing posts about the Northern Voice Canadian blogging conference that took place in Vancouver at the weekend. The resources page includes links to attendees’ posts on the many presenters’ sessions and panel discussions. Some excellent material here and well worth checking […]
Category: Weblogs
Outed by the bloggers
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central is a great example of stand-up comedy on the web at its very best. The Daily Show last Thursday was just hilarious, a satirical take on mainstream media and the blogosphere, the fake White House reporter and his naughty secrets and the recent Eason Jordan scalping […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #9: February 21, 2005
Show notes for February 21, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 47:14-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 19.4MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with […]
An open conversation with General Motors
A few hours ago, Shel and I had the pleasure of an 18-minute conversation with Michael Wiley, Director New Media, GM Communications, at General Motors. We interviewed Michael for the 21 February edition of our bi-weekly podcast show For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report. In our conversation, we discussed the GM FastLane Blog, […]
UK newspaper launches blog
The Observer newspaper in the UK will launch a blog this coming Sunday. Journalist, writer and cigar aficionado Ben Hammersley reports: Sparklines! Folksonomies! Tagging! XHTML Compliant! Accessible! Contemporania! It’s not officially live until next Sunday, and is slightly broken and unfinished in places, but seeing as it’s you, you can have a look at my […]
Blogs and wikis change the dynamics of business
Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and ex-FT correspondent, writes a terrific piece in today’s Financial Times on a new phase of the internet that’s emerging, fuelled by a new class of technologies coming out of Silicon Valley that don’t even have a name yet, but have the potential to be disruptive in their […]
eWeek: Blogger blogs can spread spyware
Can this really be true – blogs hosted by Blogger can spread spyware? Yes, according to a report in eWeek: Dozens of blogs hosted by Google Inc.’s Blogger service can install programs that are widely considered to be spyware and adware onto visitors’ computers, warn users and spyware researchers. In many cases, users are discovering […]
Business blogging award winners announced
The winners of the 2005 Business Blogging Awards – a new contest organized by Jeremy Wright and Darren Barefoot – were announced yesterday. Congratulations to everyone who won in the 20 different categories. Special congratulations to Mike Manuel of Media Guerrilla – awarded the accolade of Best PR Blog – and Paul Woodhouse of The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #12: March 3, 2005
Show notes for March 3, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 33-minute conversation recorded live from a hotel room in Chicago, IL with recorded input from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 13.3MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. […]