Posted on April 1, 2005 9:36 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Lee Hopkins raised an old question in a new context in yesterday’s installment of For Immediate Release. With media growing more and more dependent on bloggers for information, how will the media—and the audiences that pay attention to them—know whether the source material was objective or bought and paid for?
There certainly have been plenty of instances in which bloggeers have been revealed to be…
Posted on March 31, 2005 8:34 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
How many blogs do you see that spell out the URLs of each link contained in a post? Links are one of the defining elements of blogs. It’s the links the build the communities and heighten visibility. In my Web writing workshop, I urge participants to get links out of the narrative and into a “more information” box as a means of reducing…
Posted on March 25, 2005 9:31 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Writing in Tech Centeral Station, James D. Miller says that mainstream media (MSM)—under competitive threat from the rise of blogging—could seek changes to laws and regulations in an effort to hinder bloggers from competing with them. First up are politically-focused blogs, which, in some cases, could be considered political contributions under a retooled set of campaign finance laws.
The danger for most bloggers…
Posted on March 23, 2005 9:37 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Intranets
Intranet blogs are gaining in popularity, but their implementation isn’t quite the same as you’d expect from a public blog. Dennis Hamilton, a 31-year employee of KZF Design in Cincinnati, Ohio, launched an intranet blog called KLINKS in August 2004, and writes about the experience at LLRX.com.
It’s an interesting and personal view of intranet blogs. For example, Hamilton tells the story of posting…
Posted on March 23, 2005 8:57 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released March 11 revealed, not surprisingly, that traditional news outlets remain the dominant source of information for Americans. According to an article on EditorsWebLog.org, traditional news outlets shouldn’t get too comfortable. The piece cites for reasons things will change, including…
- Demographics, which suggest younger people read blogs while older people read newspapers. It’s not hard to see where this trend is…
Posted on March 22, 2005 5:33 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Debbie Weil thinks General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz “is veering pretty darn close” to discussing the GM earnings drop in his latest post to the Fastlane blog. The post, titled “Zeta Not the End of RWD Performance,” acknowledges a “reshuffling” of the GM product line. Lutz writes, “Yes, we have canceled our plans to build rear-wheel-drive vehicles off the Zeta architecture. But that does not mean…
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