Posted on February 11, 2005 10:18 am by Shel Holtz | General | Legal
I guess even PR firms have lawyers. I have often gone head-to-head with corporate attorneys who advise their organizations, in time of crisis or public scrutiny, to say nothing. “We’ll deal with it in court,” they say.
Qorvis Communications LLC, a Beltway PR firm, is in court right now, side-by-side with one of its clients, accused of making “false and misleading claims” about sugar substitute…
Posted on February 9, 2005 9:04 am by Shel Holtz | General
Steve Phenix, author of the Phenix Rising blog, has trotted out the notion of licensing PR practitioners. Distressed by the low regard in which PR is held, Phenix is exploring a number of ways to rehabilitate the profession’s image.
In my nearly 30 years in the business, I’ve seen the licensing idea brought back to life (not unlike a Phoenix) again and again. The…
Posted on February 8, 2005 4:42 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Google has launched a new map service that makes Mapquest and Yahoo’s map service look like anemic wannabes. The interface is quantum leaps ahead of the current online map standard-bearers.
Posted on February 8, 2005 9:52 am by Shel Holtz | General | Technology
I’ve been chewing on something Steve Gillmor said.
Speaking last week at a meeting I attended of the RSS/Blog SIG of the East Bay IT Group (ebig), Gillmor tossed off this observation during a converation after the meeting broke up:
“Streaming is dead.”
Gillmor was at the meeting to speak on attention.xml (which I’m still chewing on; more later), but I was struck by the “streaming is…
Posted on February 1, 2005 5:26 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Fueled by the growth in broadband access to the Net, the number of video streams increased nearly 81% in 2004, reaching 14.2 billion (with a “b”) streams. Accustream, which measures such things, expects growth to continue on the same curve this year, with some 21 billion streams (an increase of almost 50%) forecast for 2005. By 2007, the annual volume of video…
Posted on February 1, 2005 10:29 am by Shel Holtz | General
Ipsos-Reid is out with new figures confirming that the online population continues to grow. Japan led the way in 2004; increased Internet use brought the total online population to 80% of households. In the US, the number of Internet users grew 27% over 2003, contradicting expectations that Internet adoption had peaked following the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
Forty-two percent of…
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