Posted on June 14, 2007 4:43 pm by Shel Holtz | Social Networking
I’ll be in Toronto on Tuesday evening, June 18, with nothing to do. Wanna eat? Leave a comment if you’d like to get together for a Toronto geek dinner (paritcularly since Third Tuesdays are on hiatus until September). If enough people sign up, I’ll find a restaurant, make a reservation, and let you know via an update to this post, so stay…
Posted on May 14, 2007 2:48 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Social Media | Social Networking
It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the Lulu Blooker prize for for books based on blogs went to an American soldier writing an account of his time in Iraq at about the same time the U.S. military has blocked its soldiers’ access to resources like MySpace and YouTube.
The book, “My War: Killing Time in Iraq, by Colby Buzzell,” may be the last “frank and open military…
Posted on May 11, 2007 10:21 am by Shel Holtz | Social Networking | Web
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to my friend Dan York’s May 2 post asserting that the Web is fragmenting into a landcape dotted with countless walled gardens.
Dan’s obviously given this a lot of thought himself. Recalling the walled gardens of online services like CompuServe, Dan sees currently popular services like Facebook and LInkedIn as a return to the likes of these…
Posted on April 14, 2007 1:37 pm by Shel Holtz | New Media | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
I’ve seen some live blogging via Twitter, folks at conferences commenting on what the speakers are saying. But plans by the executive producer of a new Fox TV series to Twitter updates during the premier of “Drive” may be the first such use of the channel by a mainstream media outlet. Greg Yaitanes, who also directed the first episode of the action-adventure…
Posted on April 7, 2007 10:40 am by Shel Holtz | Instant Messaging | Podcasting | Social Networking
As Neville and I began recording episode #229 of the Hobson and Holtz Report last Thursday, Neville put out a tweet on the FIR Twitter account: “About to start recording FIR #229. Do you have a comment for today’s show? Twitter it!”
Among the nearly 60 people who follow the FIR tweets, three took us up on the offer, providing real-time contributions to…
Posted on April 4, 2007 10:09 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media | Participatory Communication | Social Media | Social Networking
I am overly tired of the “X is dead” redundancy. I understand the enthusiasm with which those who spout “X is dead” embrace what they believe in, but communication channels rarely die because of the advent of something new, even when that new thing represents a revolutionary, paradigm-changing development. Print didn’t replace face-to-face communication, after all, and television didn’t kill radio.
I’ll bet the first person to leave a comment…
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