△ MENU/TOP △

Holtz Communications + Technology

Shel Holtz
Communicating at the Intersection of Business and Technology
SearchClose Icon

Moblogging is the future; wikis and blogs are so yesterday. That, at least, is the world according to Bryan Alexander, codirector of the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College in Vermont. In an interview with Howard Rheingold, Alexander calls this emerging communication style “m-learning” (m for mobile).

Alexander prefers “mobile” to “wireless” or “ubiquitous” because “none of these terms really grasp one key feature of the new milieu: the modeling of…

So bloggers blew it on election day. According to a commentary by Steve Rosenbush at BusinessWeek, blowing a story isn’t the unique province of bloggers. “Young bloggers and aging ink-stained wretches with cigarette burns on their faded tweed sport jackets have all missed and mishandled their share of stories,” Rosenbush writes. But bloggers, he says, are now part of the “media food chain.”

There are…

By the time news photographers got to the scene of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh’s murder, the victim’s body had been covered. Fortunately for Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Aron Boskma—just some guy with a camera-equipped cell phone—happened to be passing by and snapped a picture of the body with a knife protruding from it. The newspaper was the only one to carry a photo of the…

Podcasting—a popular topic among these PR-focused blogs lately—is about listening to amateur-produced radio shows when and where you want to. Today, XM Radio announced a new product, the Delphi MyFi. This pocket-sized, wearable receiver gets all 130 channels of XM satellite radio. Here’s the catch: It also records up to five hours worth, either while you listen or based on programs you schedule for…

Neville Hobson reports that Ellen Simonetti has been fired for real this time by her employer, Delta Air Lines. Delta has claimed that their issue with Simonetti—who goes by “Queen of the Sky” on her personal blog—was that she posed for a photo in her uniform, which violated a company policy, and not because she blogged about work. Nevill’s post notes that Simonetti plans legal…

I just spent $25 for an i-name.  It’s mine for 50 years. It might end up being worthless, but there’s promise to this concept. It could end up becoming a standard if the word spreads.

I learned about i-names from Mike Vincenty, a friend, colleague, co-author, and IT guy. Identity Commons is the group behind i-names. According to their site, Identity Commons “seeks to…

Page 632 of 664 pages  ‹ First < 630 631 632 633 634 > Last ›