Holtz Communications + Technology

Several PR blogs are talking about San Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dan Gillmor’s item about a PR pitch he received. The pitch reflects on a client and a counselor with no clue about the world of blogging or what constitutes effective public relations. In case you haven’t read it, here’s an excerpt: “(Person’s name), CEO could talk to you about ‘What F1000 Companies are…

Continuity Central occupies an interesting business niche. They business continuity resources. Continuity, according to the site, is “‘the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organisation can continue to function through an operational interruption.” Today, the company has added an RSS service that allows companies to add business continuity news to their Web sites and intranets.

“This standard XML-based service allows…

FilmStew.com reports that celebrities suddenly find themselves plagued by bogus blogs. Targets so far have included Quentin Tarantino and Nick Nolte. It shouldn’t take long before we find ourselves confronted by fake blogs that purport to represent our businesses, products and clients.

Feedster.com has launched a new blog but doesn’t call it a blog. It’s called Feedster Support. The social networking site directs users to send their support questions via e-mail. The questions, along with the answers, are posted to the blog. The idea falls a little short in that you can’t subscribe to an RSS feed. That might be useful to a user who wants…

David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, offers a post about corporate blogs (thanks to CommonCraft for the pointer). Sifry takes a stab at defining corporate bloggers: “People who blog in an official or semi-official capacity at a company, or are so affiliated with the company where they work that even though they are not officially spokespeople for the company, they are…

I reported on October 6 on a Micropersuasion entry about a Delta Airlines flight attendant who was suspended for appearing in a photo on her blog wearing her uniform. Today, Neville Hobson reports that the attendant, Ellen Simonetti, has been fired. A BBC report quotes the flight attendant: “This blogging thing is obviously a new problem for employers and they need to…