Holtz Communications + Technology

In workshops and talks, I’ve been suggesting that the web has become balkanized. Three separate entities have emerged:

• The “reference web”— The traditional web where people go to extract information. Characterized by the receiver-driven model of communication, it’s all about pulling what you want when you want it.
• The “collaborative web”— Social media, consumer-generated content, conversations. This is made up of wikis, blogs, social networking sites, tag-driven sites, and…

Later this month, Flock Inc.—a startup running from a garage across the street from Stanford University—will release the Flock web browser.

Are those yawns I hear? Another browser? Firefox rocks, Microsoft is beta testing IE7 to some pretty glowing reviews, Opera still commands a loyal following…is there really room for yet another web browser?

Well, yes, particularly since all of the browsers currently on the market do…

Conventional wisdom suggests only a handful of bloggers can make a living at the craft. Jeremy Wright and two colleagues apparently think otherwise. With the launch of b5media, Wright seems to be saying that compelling content can turn a buck. Along with Duncan Riley and Darren Rowse, Wright has opened the doors on their blogging network on August 30, paying…

Joss Whedon, whose “Firefly” TV series didn’t last a season, convinced a studio to produce a feature-length motion picture based on the series when DVD sales went through the roof. Still, the band of sci-fi fans who scooped up the DVD represent a fraction of the audience necessary to make the movie profitable. Whedon, who had a long, successful run with his series…

August can seem like a long month, but this year it seems to just keep going on and on forever. You thought it was September? So did I, but at Feedster, August hasn’t ended yet, nearly 20 days after it was supposed to.

Early last month, Feedster introduced its top 500 blogs with this:

Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of…

Siemens USA was one of the first companies to embrace blogging as a communication device on its intranets. In addition to group and individual blogs, Blogger von Siemens is the blog that delivers company news via the intranet home page. Today, the company is using that blog as part of the relief effort in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

In an…