Holtz Communications + Technology

A piece just sent to me as part of the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits email distribution stopped me from working so I could gnaw on it a bit. This was tough. I’m facing so many deadlines this month that I haven’t been blogging much—or sleeping much—but this one grabbed me by the collar and demanded I pay attention.

The survey was conducted for the BBC by…

What with all the talk about what passes for credibility, the Los Angeles Times has made it clear that, for its editorial staff, at least, misrepresentation of oneself is a no-no, even in the blogosphere.

The Times suspended Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Michael Hiltzik and killed both his blog and his “Golden State” column after he used pseudonyms to post a comment on his own…

Kevin Dugan’s blog, “Strategic Public Relations,” got a nice write-up in the Annenberg School’s Online Journalism Review. A sample excerpt:

(Dugan)...stressed quality over quantity, pointing out that “just because you can publish ten times a day, doesn???t mean you should.” With this mindset, Dugan balances work, his family and his site, so posts only occur about once a week. Dugan said Strategic Public Relations receives an…

At the Ragan Corporate Communicators conference—and with a Chicagoland client with whom I met following the conference—I heard an objection raised to business blogs that I’ve heard before. How can a company blog when it functions in a regulated environment? In fact, a communicator with a financial services company noted that, in addition to federal regulatory oversight, the company is also subject to…

Just as vultures can detect the faint scent of freshly dead meat from miles away, spammers can sniff out new channels through which they can spew their garbage. Creative people are coming up with innovative new ways to allow people to tap into the social computing space. We can rely on spammers to turn whatever they come up with into…

I was taken aback by an item in The Blog Herald that was inspired by an item in Stowe Boyd’s blog. Stowe wrote:

I think it is more likely that a role analogous to press relations will arise: blog relations. These folks will keep tabs on Blogpulse and Technorati, to see what is going down, but they will also maintain and active and…