Holtz Communications + Technology

Google has released a free downloadable desktop search tool that lets you add your hard drive to your Google Web searches. According to an article in today’s Washington Post, you’ll be able to enter a search term and see results from the Web and your desktop together. The search tool “not only indexes the full text of e-mail messages and word processing…

Global Knowledge Review is a new magazine from the UK that will cost you a couple hundred bucks for a year’s subscription, but the first issue is available as a free PDF download from the magazine’s Web site. Looks interesting. Among the debut issue’s article is a piece on “What Knowledge Workers Want.”

I’ve maintained for years that employee communications departments should be fully engaged in their…

How desparate are you to get people to read your blog? There must be a lot of desparate bloggers out there if a new service called Blogexplosion thinks it can sustain a business. Claiming it can get “hundreds or even thousands of other bloggers coming to read your blog every month,” the service hooks you up with other bloggers who will agree to…

The developers of RSS never dreamed it would be used to syndicate content—notably blogs—when they created it. The original intent was to allow content aggregation in a portal. Created at Netscape for the “My Netwcape Network” portal, the idea was for content providers to offer headline-based feeds that would appear automatically on the portal. Portal users would click on a the link in the portal to…

Londonderry, N.H.-based ice cream maker Stonyfield Farm launched a blog to focus on various aspects of the company’s programs and mission. These include the environment, organic farming, women, children, and the company. The company’s CEO, who supported Howard Dean for president during the Democratic primaries, got the idea from the impact the blogs of Dean and his supporters had on the…

Today’s Globe and Mail offers this lede: “The military board of inquiry investigating the fatal blaze aboard HMCS Chicoutimi will not be a public relations exercise crafted to boost the image of Canada’s navy, one of the Canadians who is taking part said Monday. ” The article quoted the official as saying that the inquiry would not be an exercise is “relentless…