Posted on December 17, 2004 7:50 am by Shel Holtz | General
You couldn’t call it a scientific study, but polls are fun anyway. Forbes has a poll on its site asking about your involvement with blogs. The options: you have one and update it daily, you check someone else’s daily, you’ve seen one but don’t read regularly, you’ve never seen one but have heard of them, and “What’s a blog?” No choice is offered for “Read dozens of them via RSS…
Posted on December 14, 2004 10:06 pm by Shel Holtz | General
It’s a quick overnighter to Toronto. Well, not quick, exactly, since it’s a five-hour flight, but it’s overnight in any case. I’ll be back on Friday but will try to add an item or two from my hotel room on Bloor Wednesday evening or Thursday morning.
I hope everyone’s enjoying their holidays…
Posted on December 14, 2004 9:43 am by Shel Holtz | General
What is it about podcasting that will make it the big online story of 2005? It’s easy to argue that the time-shifting capability is the big deal. Podcasting is radio’s answer to TiVo, allowing you to listen when you’re ready, not when the show is broadcast. Then there’s the “power-to-the-people” aspect, allowing anybody to produce a radio show. (Neville Hobson and I are working through the…
Posted on December 13, 2004 11:13 am by Shel Holtz | General
Thanks to PR Studies for a link to a member news item on the site of the International Communications Consultancy Organization, which reports on a multi-nation study that serves as “a barometer of the PR agency industry.”
According to the study, crisis management is offering agencies the greatest prospects for growth, the IT field has replaced health care as the leading growth sector,…
Posted on December 12, 2004 9:52 am by Shel Holtz | General
Allan Jenkins has done a noteworthy job of crafting a “Code of Blogging Ethics” for his efforts at Desirable Roasted Coffee. It’s early Sunday morning, I just read them, and I can’t think of a thing I’d add. Maybe after I’ve had my first cup of coffee, something will come to mind.
Ideally, something like this would be as available for adoption as a Creative Commons license;…
Posted on December 10, 2004 11:47 am by Shel Holtz | General
I have just turned on a feature in this blog that requires registration as a member to comment. I hate doing this, but I’ve discovered that virtually every post over a week or so old has been defaced with between five and 12 comment spams, all dealing with poker sites. It’ll take hours to delete them all and it will be difficult…
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