Posted on September 24, 2004 12:52 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Jonathan Haber, internal communiator at Marriott, sent me a link to a search engine I’ve never heard of. IceRocket has an interesting twist. In addition to search results, the engine pulls up a thumbnail view of the page it found. “Visually oriented folks can recognize by sight the site for which they couldn?t remember the URL. Speaking as someone who often…
Posted on September 22, 2004 7:57 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
With all the debate over the credibility of wikis as an information source for journalists, the software’s potential as an internal communications tool seems to have been lost. Fortunately, the Globe and Mail has run an article touting the benefits of running a wiki behind the firewall.
The article explores the impact of internal wikis on software developer Xten Networks, whose development team…
Posted on September 16, 2004 4:25 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Online Journalism Review’s Mark Glaser has penned a column dealing with comment spam. “Basically, spammers have been using blogs to help boost their standings in Google searches by posting massive numbers of comments that include links to their pornography sites, scams and get-rich-quick sites. If your site is linked by a top-ranked site or blog, then Google will often raise your site’s…
Posted on September 15, 2004 8:12 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Articles and blogs continue to tout the potential for RSS to replace e-mail. The motivation to find a replacement is obvious: Nobody can spam you with an RSS feed. The spam problem continues to exacerbate, with spam accounting for 92% of the e-mail MXlogic Threat Center processed in August (compared to 84% a month earlier), 70% of the e-mail MessageLabs…
Posted on September 5, 2004 10:56 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
First I read Stephen Wildstrom’s Business Week column (subscription required). Then, driving home from SFO, I saw a billboard advertising it. With two references in one day, I figured I had to try it.
“It” is Blinkx, a free download that provides you with instant online research assistance. The product is new and, in some respects, still in development, but it shows tremendous…
Posted on September 3, 2004 5:06 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Sad to say, but the organizational communications profession is way behind the curve of a major technology shift. The first time, around 1985, desktop publishing replaced gallies and rubiliths and waxers. The profession didn’t see it coming. Rather than plan its use, we were confronted by departments publishing their own crappy newsletters just because they could. The writing was often atrocious and…
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