Holtz Communications + Technology

I suppose I need to clarify what I wrote the other day when I commented on the sudden explosion in the number of consultantices and practices focused on the communication tactics of blogs, wikis, RSS and podcasting. Apparently some readers thought I was down on the idea such practice or any outsourcing resources focused on helping organizations move forward with…

I’ll be in Chicago through Thursday, but posting as time allows. Off to the aiport now…

Although I never tried to emulate his writing—who could?—Hunter S. Thompson was a huge influence on me. We studied him in a Journalism school class on “new journalism,” the notion of reporting from the inside looking out (also practiced by writers like Gay Talese). I read every Rolling Stone piece, I bought every collection of his works, and I followed his exploits with…

With a bit of trepidation, I visited the new “Ethics Monitor” FastCompany magazine has just launched. According to Heath Row, writing in the magazine’s FC Now blog, the monitor is “a series of periodic surveys in which we gauge readers’ positions on a number of topics and everyday scenarios.”

The first questions deal with individual behavior. The questions include…

• Do you instruct your assistant to tell callers that you’re…

My RSS feeds appear to be working again, but if you use FeedDemon as your news reader, you’ll need to delete my blog as one of your feeds and then enter it again as a new feed. At least, that’s what I had to do in version 1.5.

Update: Still problems. FeedDemon seems to update fine when the channel is added as a new…

Things still aren’t quite right with my server. I’m serving up web pages and the e-mail’s working just fine, as is most everything else. Evidently, though, I still have a glitch my mySQL. It’s keeping me from starting new discussion boards for my Webinar service and it’s also screwing up my RSS feeds. As long as the feeds aren’t going out, I’m holding off on too much…