Holtz Communications + Technology

The other day, I was told about an IT department that was refusing to implement social media internally because of (ready?) storage. “All those employee-generated videos and photos!” they worried. “We don’t have the storage for those files.”

My immediate thought: Bunk. It was an excuse that belied other issues. Why do I guess this? Because a few weeks back, I added a 1-terabyte drive to my…

The January 2 edition of John C. Dvorak’s video podcast CrankyGeeks  is must-viewing for PR practitioners, and in particular those who work for technology clients. Dvorak’s guests include New York Times writers John Markoff and Gregg Zachary, who offer an intriguing take on the state of technology journalism;

Companies should worry about the experiment Rogers is undertaking in Canada.

Rogers—one of the largest Internet Service Providers in Canada—has begun inserting ads at the top of screens, above the website to which customers have navigated. (A screen shot of Google’s spartan home page defaced by a Rogers ad was oroginally posted to Lauren Weinstein’s blog. Google, of course, authorized nothing of the sort.)

The…

Every year around this time, Michele asks me for a gift list. This will definitely be on it. I need to boost my geek quotient, and nothing will accomplish that like wearing a t-shirt that detects WiFi signals, and at $29.99, it’s way cheaper than a new VAIO.

Since Neville Hobson wrote about Total Commander, calling it his most indispensable PC application, I’ve been thinking about mine. It’s a very simple little application that doesn’t do a lot, but what it does it does extremely well. It’s called Starter from a shareware company called Codestuff. It makes management of the applications that run at startup a breeze. Most important, though, is its…

Not too long ago, I finished reading “Alexander Hamilton,” by Ron Chernow. It took me over a year to read this book. It wasn’t densely written or complex. In fact, it was a good read. The problem was the physical size of the book. At 900-some-odd pages in hardcover, it was simply too big and heavy to take with me on my travels. The…