Holtz Communications + Technology

All you opponents of Net Neutrality, explain to me why this is okay:

Verizon customers living in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire are being switched over to Fairpoint Communications (Verizon sold its land-line business to Fairpoint in order to erase some debt from its books). (Details here.)

Fairpoint has announced to customers who use the service to access the Net that, effective…

It is easy to focus on the negative side of social media, from the banalities of some bloggers to the nastiness of some comments, from the sleazy things accomplished through anonymity to the hurt and pain people seem to be able to cause one another. You don’t see much reporting on those instances where social media provides a platform for allowing the…

On the one hand, Associated Press asserts that it wants to protect its content from abuse by bloggers. On the other hand, they’re willing to sell their content by the word to anyone willing to pay. All of which makes you wonder if the venerable AP has taken any issue at all with the manipulation of its content by one of its…

I’ve been impressed with a lot of the work GM has done. Even the European operation has transformed its newsroom into a social media newsroom, based loosely on the template Todd Defren released. One of the elements of GM’s social media newsroom is it’s “Blog Roll,” which direct readers to some of the more influential auto blogs.

I like the idea of an industry blogroll,…

I’m a big fan of Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech, better known as TWIT, one of the top independent podcasts. The crew onhand for episode 137 is an entertaining one: PC Magazine’s John C. Dvorak, Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis, and Guardian reporter Wil Harris. But they got it wrong with the contempt they heaped on “Evolution of Security,” the new blog from the Transportation Security…

I’m on the mailing lists of both the Republican and Democratic parties. I got there by having been registered to vote at one point as a member of each party. (I won’t get into why I was registered with each party; I try to not take sides in the context of this blog, slamming or praising either party when they do something…