Holtz Communications + Technology

An intriguing note from Steve Outing at PoynterOnline, pointing to a New York Sun story by Roderick Boyd. Boyd cites a Wall Street Analyst and a hedge fund manager who see problems in continued investments in newspapers considering the diffused competition, high cost structures, and growing use of the Internet as a channel for obtaining news. ‘That decreases the need to pay…

Google has launched a new map service that makes Mapquest and Yahoo’s map service look like anemic wannabes. The interface is quantum leaps ahead of the current online map standard-bearers.

I’ve been chewing on something Steve Gillmor said.

Speaking last week at a meeting I attended of the RSS/Blog SIG of the East Bay IT Group (ebig), Gillmor tossed off this observation during a converation after the meeting broke up:

“Streaming is dead.”

Gillmor was at the meeting to speak on attention.xml (which I’m still chewing on; more later), but I was struck by the “streaming is…

There are a lot of RSS primers on the Web. Here’s one more, a pretty good one. Given the difficulty explaining RSS to people who haven’t experienced it yet, you can’t have too many resources at your fingertips to help clarify things.

When podcasting first emerged, my thoughts turned immediately to the applications available to businesses. I was thinking about all those opt-in e-mail newsletters companies provide on their investor relations pages so the financial community can stay up to date. Why not a weekly podcast for investors covering company news and activities? How about a regular podcast on various company brands…

Mike Manuel reports that Ask Jeeves went ahead and posted its press release yesterday announcing its acquisition of Bloglines; an FAQ was posted, as well.

Just as I thought, the press release covers the concerns expressed by people who learned of the acquisition through the rumor instead of the official announcement:

We want to assure you that the Bloglines service will…