Holtz Communications + Technology

I lauded the Hillary Clinton campaign recently for the launch of The Fact Hub, a blog-based website designed to provide rapid response to rumors, inaccuracies, and factual misstatements. It’s only fair, then, that I call the campaign out for a communications gaffe made all the more egregious by the the fact that FEMA was all over the news recently for making a…

Think social media doesn’t change things? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shut down Radio Caracas Television to silence criticism. So the station has simply begun producing shortened programming with a reduced staff, and making the content available through YouTube.

CNN has the story.

It’s scary when the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation—the committee with oversight of telecommunications, the committee that is addressing the Net neutrality question—displays a remarkable degree of ignorance about the nature of the Net itself. If you haven’t listened to Rob Walch’s Podcast411 interview with Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alasaka), it’s an eye-opener (well, at least an ear-opener).

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There’s a lot of debate on the issue of Net neutrality, with the telecoms and their advocates muddying the waters with a lot of doublespeak. (Not that it matters. The telecom lobby in Washington is a whole lot stronger than the unaffiliated collection of neutrality supporters, as the House of Representatives recent vote against neutrality proves.) On the other side, neutrality…

These days, it seems that the political issues that rile me are as likely as not to have little to do with the the positions of the Democratic or Republican parties. While traditional politics haven’t vanished from my radar, I’m spending more time thinking and worrying about the future of the Internet and individual rights online. This covers everything from efforts by…

The Los Angeles Fire Department’s blog, produced by the LAFD PR team (as reported by Steve Rubel), has prompted an LA blogger to call on the Los Angeles Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department to follow suit.

In an open letter on his blog, Sean Bonner of Blogging.LA writes:

Search for “LAFD” on this site and see the countless other posts praising them for their openess and…