Holtz Communications + Technology

RSS Network is open for business. From NotePage, Inc.—the company behind the RSS feed creation tool FeedForAll—RSS Network is a directory of feeds combined with an RSS feed search engine. The directory isn’t complete—would you expect it to be, given the ballooning number of feeds available? I did a vanity search and found “For Immediate Release,” the podcast I produce with Neville Hobson, but not this blog.…

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on being talked about at the New York geek dinner, sound clip joke, URL misdirecting to Microsoft home page, making PR accessible, podcasts and Podscope); what Paris Hilton could have done with her podcast; the occasional conflict between corporate communications and marketing; political podcast interviews at the UK general election; retrofitting blogs and podcasts into communication strategies; how…

If you or your company have a Web site, you need to read this thread on the Google Web Accelerator and the havoc it can cause to you and anyone using your site, particularly if your site incorporates any Web applications. Here’s the heart of the matter:

The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link. This gives the…

Being a proud and dedicated early adopter, I read a couple books on my Palm when Palm-enabled books first became available. I didn’t like it. The constant scrolling was particularly troublesome; it was sometimes downright nauseating. (I guess that could have been the book making me queasy, but I don’t think so.) The text was tiny; if I enlarged it, I had to…

The fact that I don’t object to the concept of a character blog doesn’t mean I’ve seen one yet that doesn’t suck. Frank Willis’s blog comes a bit closer than the rest.

There is no Frank Willis, of course. He was invented for an advertising campaign for Ipswitch, maker of a collaboration suite for small and mid-sized businesses. You won’t see the ads in mainstream publications,…

I’ve said for years—and I’ve said it here—that new media do not kill old media. Instead, it forces the old media to adapt. Television didn’t kill radio, but radio stopped broadcasting the kind of content that was better suited to television and began presenting material that was better served by an audio-only format.

So I don’t believe for a minute that newspapers are on their way out. Yes,…