Month: January 2007

  • Troubleshooting a WordPress error

    One of the great things about the WordPress community is the amazing number of people who develop plugins for the blog platform and make them freely available to anyone. Plugins are useful bits of code that add new or improve…

  • Speaking at upcoming events

    I’ve updated the list of conferences and other events I’m scheduled to be speaking at or otherwise actively participating in during 2007. The list currently shows seven events so far this year. March looks to be an especially busy month.…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #205: January 11, 2007

    Content summary: Second Thursday in Second Life communicators’ meeting today; FIR ethics Skypecast on Jan 13; more listener opinions on the Microsoft/Edelman PR kerfuffle, including Eric Schwartzman’s interview with Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle; Dan York reports on LinkedIn,…

  • Next steps for open source Second Life

    Yesterday’s announcement by Linden Lab that the software you run on your computer to interact with Second Life will be opened up to anyone who wants to contribute to its future development generated wide-ranging commentary in the media and among…

  • Edelman snaps up another communicator

    I’ve not met Gary Goldhammer but I’ve been a long-time subscriber to his blog’s RSS feed. Probably one reason is he is the only blogger I read who describes himself as a recovering journalist. News yesterday that Gary has been…