Posted on October 18, 2004 1:54 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Podcasting is certainly getting a lot of attention. Steve Rubel reports that publications like the LA Times have picked up the story and started to run. Dan Gillmor, technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News has also covered it.
I was struck by the voice-of-reason approach taken by David Coursey in eWeek, who wonders if podcasting is “blogging for people with even…
Posted on October 18, 2004 7:30 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
After using Google’s Desktop, the new free download that lets you search your hard drive, I’ve decided to stick with X1. Not that there’s anything wrong with Google Desktop, particularly if you want to be able to search for files on your hard drive for free. I’ve already plunked down the US $74.95 for X1. This is a case of “you get what you pay for.”
The…
Posted on October 15, 2004 7:48 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
On a teleseminar panel I participated in a few months back, San Jose Mercurry News columnist Dan Gillmor told the audience he was asking his PR contacts to advise him of RSS feeds for press releases. He would no longer take them by e-mail. E-mail, he said, had become too much of a hassle, what with all the spam. RSS,…
Posted on October 14, 2004 9:31 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Google has released a free downloadable desktop search tool that lets you add your hard drive to your Google Web searches. According to an article in today’s Washington Post, you’ll be able to enter a search term and see results from the Web and your desktop together. The search tool “not only indexes the full text of e-mail messages and word processing…
Posted on October 14, 2004 8:31 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
The developers of RSS never dreamed it would be used to syndicate content—notably blogs—when they created it. The original intent was to allow content aggregation in a portal. Created at Netscape for the “My Netwcape Network” portal, the idea was for content providers to offer headline-based feeds that would appear automatically on the portal. Portal users would click on a the link in the portal to…
Posted on October 7, 2004 4:46 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Back on Sept. 30, Neville Hobson’s blog offered up an item about the emerging concept of “podcasting” and followed it up a couple days ago with another piece that went into more detail on the idea. I’ve also received an e-mail from my friend Bill Boyd, who has just heard of the notion (“Just when I think I’m starting to get a handle on the new technologies,…
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