Holtz Communications + Technology

When King Gyandendra assumed power in Nepal early this month, he did was most rulers do when they have taken power by force: He shut down the media. But after the phone lines came back up, journalists whose newspapers, radio stations and television stations had been shut down began reporting on conditions via blogs. Mark Glaser tells the story at OJR.

I just tried RSS2HTML. It does just what it says it will do. The free Web-based service from NotePage, the folks who brought you the RSS creator FeedForAll, lets you enter an RSS feed’s URL, then turns it into a static Web page. For anybody who has ever wanted to display an RSS feed as part of their Web site and have…

eWeek is reporting that some blogs hosted by Google’s Blogger service are being used to distribute spyware and adware. Readers of these blogs are tricked into clicking links that are disguised as “next entry” and the like. Instead, the link authorizes the download of the malicious applications that drive everybody nuts. Google is aware of the problem and is looking into it.

Catching up on some blogs in my hotel room in Chicago, I found a wonderful post from Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble.  In the item, Scoble recounts a conversation with an unnamed Microsoft marketer who was confounded because a nifty marketing-focused Web page wasn’t getting any traffic. When Scoble asked if the page included an RSS feed, the marketer said no, the page was…

Wired News interviews Adam Curry, former MTV veejay and current “podfather” on the development and growth of podcasting. The article offers a useful summary of the podcasting world and includes a sidebar that covers “Podcasting at a Glance.”

Wired News has the story of Jason Kottke, author of a blog at kotke.org, who quit his day job as a Web designer to blog full-time. The notice on his blog asks readers to become “micropatrons” but contributing modest amounts through PayPal. He hopes to be able to blog full-time for one year. The “one time ‘fund-drive’” will last three weeks, he says. “I have absolutely no…