Holtz Communications + Technology

I’ve just noticed that Expression Engine, the new software I’m using for blogs on my server, produces a different URL for the RSS feeds than pMachine did. If you’ve been getting my feed, you’ll need to update your news reader with the new URL, which you can find by clicking the RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom links in the sidebar column.

My friend and communicator of note Bill Boyd sent along a white paper (registration required) from a company called KnowHow touting “The Next Big Thing”—event-driven RSS. KnowHow makes the enterprise server that runs event-driven RSS, designed for internal communicaitons.

The paper outlines the limitations of RSS as it exists today, including…

• Lack of centralized control
• Increased load on infrastructure
• Timeliness, completeness and relevancy of information
• Duplicate content…

Neville Hobson covers a report from the Financial Times on intranet blogging. The FT article takes a look at one company—a German investment bank—that has set up about 120 internal blogs to “promote discussion and distribute information, including some that encourage users to share ideas, requests and criticisms of in-house information technology systems. Traders use the medium to share information and research.”

The…

Poynter Online’s Steve Outing started his two-part series with an overview of what traditional journalists have to learn from bloggers. Now comes the second installment, which turns the tables. Bloggers no doubt felt fairly puffed up over having something to teach mainstream journalists, but may sniff at the notion that those same journalists may have anything to teach bloggers.

Outing notes the…

More traditional businesses are finding uses for RSS. Global Auction Guide Media Group—“advertising network available to auctioneers with over 50 Web sites carrying the complete sale bills of hundreds of participating auctioneers”—has added over 70 RSS feeds to help users search for upcoming offline auctions (the kind where an auctioneers stands at a lectern with a gavel as opposed to the kind where you’re…

As you can tell by looking, I’ve completed the switchover from the software I was using to publish my blog—pMachine—to Expression Engine. Expression Engine is distributed by the same company, but it offers several significant features not available in pMachine. The one that motivated me to make the switch is the inclusion of Captcha.

Captcha stands (sort of) for Completely Automated Public Turing…