Holtz Communications + Technology

Last week was unusually busy, so I spent some time this morning catching up on e-mail and blog posts. One message caught my eye. Alice Marshall, posting to the Global PR Blog Week mailing list, asks, “How would you advise your client in this kind of situation?”

She points to a message posted to The Daily Kos titled “Open Source Research Project: Alan Greenspan.”…

Companies seem to be less nervous about deploying blogs and wikis as tools for internal communication and collaboration than they are about introducing outward facing channels. The Gilbane Report for March—Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications?—finds companies are introducing these tools internally for a variety of reasons, including easier-to-use bulletin boards, documentation, record-keeping, and departmental intranet sites.

Last year, one of my speaking gigs took me to Phoenix where I did a couple sessions at a convening of communicators from several segments of the US Lutheran church. (It always tickles me when I get such invitations, being the nice Jewish boy that I am!) Among my topics (no surprise here) was blogs.

Most of those in attendance hadn’t yet…

When King Gyandendra assumed power in Nepal early this month, he did was most rulers do when they have taken power by force: He shut down the media. But after the phone lines came back up, journalists whose newspapers, radio stations and television stations had been shut down began reporting on conditions via blogs. Mark Glaser tells the story at OJR.

eWeek is reporting that some blogs hosted by Google’s Blogger service are being used to distribute spyware and adware. Readers of these blogs are tricked into clicking links that are disguised as “next entry” and the like. Instead, the link authorizes the download of the malicious applications that drive everybody nuts. Google is aware of the problem and is looking into it.

Wired News has the story of Jason Kottke, author of a blog at kotke.org, who quit his day job as a Web designer to blog full-time. The notice on his blog asks readers to become “micropatrons” but contributing modest amounts through PayPal. He hopes to be able to blog full-time for one year. The “one time ‘fund-drive’” will last three weeks, he says. “I have absolutely no…