Posted on October 29, 2004 5:29 pm by Shel Holtz | External
Autoblog reports that General Motors has opened a blog that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Chevy small block engine. There apparently are no other blogs at gmblogs.com—just a logo with no links. But the Smallblock Engine Blog is generating comments on all its posts, including corrections from the dedicated base of small block engine fans. The initial post, for example,…
Posted on October 27, 2004 4:44 pm by Shel Holtz | External
Feedster.com has launched a new blog but doesn’t call it a blog. It’s called Feedster Support. The social networking site directs users to send their support questions via e-mail. The questions, along with the answers, are posted to the blog. The idea falls a little short in that you can’t subscribe to an RSS feed. That might be useful to a user who wants…
Posted on October 27, 2004 9:17 am by Shel Holtz | External
Knowing I was going to spend more than 10 hours in the air over two days, I decided to dive deep into the podcasting pool. Using iPodder, I grabbed about a half dozen podcasts and listened to them between San Francisco and Philadelphia, and on the return flight. With one exception, I’ll remove all of them from iPodder so I never have…
Posted on October 27, 2004 8:55 am by Shel Holtz | External
Several entries in PR blogs have promised to blog the PRSA conference’s late-entry session on blogs. (Oh, God, did I really use the word “blog” three times in one sentence?) According to Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a contributing editor to Tech Central Station, such live event coverage is part of the future of blogging. In the second of a two-part article on the “The Future…
Posted on October 22, 2004 3:14 pm by Shel Holtz | External
I’m not sure if this is new, but Google News picked it up only five hours ago: Newsweek is offering an RSS feed of its top stories of the day. It would be easier to know if this was new if Newsweek date-stamped its stories.
Posted on October 19, 2004 2:11 pm by Shel Holtz | External
Wilmington, Delaware’s News Journal has launched a new video webcast that is updated twice daily. According to Frank Barnako’s CBS Marketwatch column, the webcast is compiled from video footage and stills contributed by the staff’s photographers and producers. Updates are posted at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time. The webcasts include stories from the newspaper with links to the full text along with…
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