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Shel Holtz
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A friend recently posted a short opinion on Facebook:

“ONLY THREE KINDS OF PROFESSIONAL WRITERS would lean on AI to puke out their prose: the lazy, the cynical and the hopelessly overwhelmed. Tell me I’m wrong.”

This post was, in fact, a promo for a longer blog post. His blog, by the way, is excellent. My friend is an excellent writer. He wrote an excellent…

For Immediate Release

Cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network.

Neville Hobson joins host Shel Holtz for the January installment of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” to talk about these stories:

  • Lost trust in Facebook led to wariness about a user-generated meme.
  • Adobe is bringing part of “Minority Report” to life.
  • The Internet of Things was everywhere at CES.
  • A picture of an egg is the most viewed Instagram post…

Friday Wrap #233I extract items for the Wrap from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to my weekly email briefing.

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Twitter expands to 280 characters—Twitter’s 140-character limit will soon be a thing of the past. The company is expanding the limit on posts to 280 characters. Only some users have access (though several people have…

Friday Wrap #223I extract items for the Wrap from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to my weekly email briefing.

Data Journalism for Communicators

Data journalism is more than just a trend in the publishing world. Its momentum is crazy big with media outlets investing more and more into the practice of telling stories with…

Data Journalism for Communicators (Webinar)

Publishers have awakened to data journalism in a big way. Once a niche form of reporting that occupied a small corner of the newsroom, telling stories with numbers—both narratively and visually—has become a media staple.

For business, data journalism represents some threats but massive untapped opportunity. The threats come from not being aware of what publicly-available data may reveal about your company or…