Year: 2009

  • Twitter as a public service

    What a great initiative announced yesterday by the city of San Francisco – enable citizens to use Twitter as one of the means through which they can use the city’s 311 online information and services network. […] you will be…

  • What has Vista SP2 done or undone?

    The other day, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) was installed on my Dell XPS 420 desktop PC via Windows Update. Ever since, I’ve experienced a number of weird things. No matter which way I look at them, I can’t…

  • Business opinion of Twitter by the numbers

    A poll last month by business network LinkedIn reveals some useful and fascinating opinions by nearly 4,000 business people about Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Digg and the iPhone. In summary, the survey results show that a clear majority (30%) of those…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #453: June 1, 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s in Las Vegas; only 2 slots left for the FIR Dinner in San Francisco on June 7; next Monday’s show will be recorded live from the IABC conference; no Michael Netzley report this week; the Media Monitoring…

  • Speaking to Brussels

    Last Thursday, May 28, I participated in “Web 2 EU: Publication 2 Participation,” a half-day conference in Brussels organized by the IABC Belgium chapter. As I mentioned in my post last week, I was there but not physically so: I…