Holtz Communications + Technology

The front page of the business section of my hometown paper, The Contra Costa Times, bore this headline this morning: “Papers broaden margins, jump in the blogosphere” (free subscription required). Included in the article is a sidebar listing the blogs hosted by the Times itself, including one by editor Chris Lopez whose blog addresses “what goes on in the newsroom of the…

San Jose State University journalism professor Richard Craig jumps into the blogs-vs.-journalism debate with a well-reasoned op-ed piece appearing in today’s San Jose Mercury News. Craig wins points by noting the whole debate is specious, but goes on to explain why. He lists several points, my favorite of which is: “Declaring that blogs equal journalism is like saying that television equals…

This morning, perusing my RSS feeds, I found an item I wanted to blog about. The source was an site out of India called Webnewswire.  (The item prompted my post on whether blogs might someday replace press releases.) As I tried to figure out who wrote the post—no attribution appears anywhere on the site—I decided to hop on over to Technorati where I entered…

Scott Baradell cites an Economist article in which Bruce Lowry of Novell foresees blogs “completely replacing press releases within 10 years.”

The argument goes like this: The Net has promoted transparency. Your press releases don’t just go to a targeted segment of the press; they also get posted to Yahoo! and other sites. Since everybody sees all releases, companies need to be more…

As I noted briefly yeterday in a follow-up in

Blogs come into play more than once in the story of General Motors’ decision to yank advertising from the Los Angeles Times. In case you missed it, GM wasn’t happy with a review of one of its cars by Pulitzer Prize winning auto writer Dan Neil. Several critics wondered why GM wasn’t addressing the issue on its own Fastlane blog. Meanwhile, Business Week…