Month: April 2006

  • Software testing and talking

    I’ve spent a bit of time this weekend with software and servers. Quite a bit of time with release candidate 2 of version 2 of ecto for Windows, the offline blog manager and editor which I’ve been testing over the…

  • The numbered days of traditional ad creation

    Firefox Flicks, the grassroots marketing campaign designed to increase awareness of the Firefox browser, ended on Friday. Run by Mozilla, the contest resulted in over 250 30-second advertising videos being created and submitted by Firefox enthusiasts. Last week, Mozilla began…

  • Multi lingua francas

    Three separate but possibly related things about language and culture. BL Ochman writes about an English-language dilemma: In WebProWorld’s Google forum today, (registration required) the publisher of an Irish travel site wonders whether Google penalizes for spellings in Oxford English…

  • The next wave at work

    A report in the Financial Times on social media in the workplace highlights some terrific examples from companies who talk about the benefits to be gained from deploying blogs, wikis and RSS. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: […] More than 450 DrKW…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #128: April 13, 2006

    Content summary: Steve Rubel and Jeremy Pepper bury the hatchet; Eric Schwartzman interviews Harold Burson, Matt Murray, Al Golin and Ali Velshi; PR Week US editor Keith O’Brien is public with his blog; BlogBurst syndicates blogs to top mainstream media;…