Year: 2009

  • Focus your attention with Twitter Lists

    If you’re following hundreds or perhaps thousands of people on Twitter, keeping up with what’s happening is a time-consuming task. As you connect with more people, that’s not getting any easier. A great way to help you pay attention to…

  • The mother of all broadband?

    Yesterday, the broadband internet service into my home office that I receive from Virgin Media was upgraded from 20Mb (what Virgin calls its XL service) to the latest 50Mb (XXL in Virgin parlance). The first thing you do when doing…

  • Look after your identity

    This week has been National Identity Fraud Prevention Week in the UK, a fact I wasn’t aware of before hearing about it from Josh Davidson at Fleishman Hillard, the PR agency behind the nationwide awareness drive designed to help UK…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #492: October 15, 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s in Las Vegas for BlogWorld and New Media Expo; follow-up: Pepsi apologizes over sexist iPhone app; Shel’s update on a Boston hospital that jerks its knees and blocks employee access to social media sites; Dan York goes…

  • The art of writing great headlines

    How much attention do you pay to the headline of a blog post or other content you write? I always think that the headline of a blog post, newspaper article, news release or other piece of written material is the…