Holtz Communications + Technology

On “For Immediate Release” yesterday, I reported on results of a study that focus on the increased use of mobile telephones for activities other than phone calls. Consumers use an average of 4.8 features on their handsets, ranging from text messaging (the most dominant use) to software downloads, coupon retrieval, and alert services. My point was the companies ignore mobile phones as a…

For a variety of reasons, I’ve been registering all my domain names at GoDaddy. The domains are dirt cheap and even cheaper if you use a promo code from the hundreds of podcasts the domain registration service sponsors. They have great technical support. They offer a range of related services and are pretty good at them.

But that may not be…

As if there isn’t enough evidence of media convergence, Niall Kennedy reports that the latest high-definition TV’s from Sony will allow you to subscribe to RSS feeds. Using the BRAVIA Internet video link, your TV will be connected to your home broadband network via Ethernet.

I already do some of this with TiVo, notably subscribing to Rocketboom and a few other podcats using the…

Jeremy Pepper emailed me to give me a heads-up that client Cisco Systems is opening a “connected home” tomorrow in Second Life to coincide with CEO John Chambers’ keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The connected home seems to be a dominant theme at this year’s CES; Microsoft’s Bill Gates spent a fair amount of his keynote talking about it, too.

There has been a…

Steve Outing, writing in Editor & Publisher, offers advice to small newspapers in order to “keep up with the times and resist the industrywide trend of flat or declining print readership and loss of advertising dollars to new forms of media.” One of the 10 tips: Don’t hire print-focused journalists.

I first read this tip on Jim Horton’s blog; Jim noted that the same advice could…

A good friend who works at Blurb told me things have been hopping with a huge surge in orders for the holidays; he barely has time to breathe. This bit of news reinforces my belief that new media don’t kill old media, but rather that old media adapt—and, in this case, integrate.

In case you haven’t heard of Blurb, the online service provides you…