Month: January 2011

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #581: January 10, 2011

    Content summary: Happy birthday Eric Schwartzman!; listener comments discussion; News That Fits: can Dave Winer reinvent blogging?, Dan York reports on DimDim and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, a third of consumers now shopping via mobile, Michael Netzley…

  • Blogging isn’t dead, it’s evolving

    There’s been a bit of commentary and opinion in recent weeks that blogging (meaning, written content longer than just a paragraph or two) as we know it is dying or even already dead when compared to the rise of Facebook…

  • Facebook in the mainstream

    How Facebook has now become mainstream, almost pervasive, is a recurring thought after seeing three examples of how that is during the course of this weekend. The first example was a hand-written poster outside a used car dealer in Sandhurst…

  • Worry-free congestion charging

    One of the realities today of driving into a city like London is the congestion charge, a tax on vehicles entering a specified zone the boundaries of which are clearly marked by signs like the one here. It’s probably largely…

  • How to automate your copyright year

    The other day, I noticed that the copyright notice I display in the footer of this blog still said ‘2010.’ So I dived into the code in the footer template in the WordPress theme I use and made the change…