Category: Communication

  • Trust in Twitter takes a knock

    If Twitter says a Twitter account is authentic, you trust it, don’t you? That little tick on a blue background you often see alongside accounts of prominent politicians, celebs and others is your symbol of confidence that the account belongs…

  • Obviously maths isn’t our strong point

    Shel Holtz and I mark a milestone today as January 3 is the anniversary of the first episode of The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast which we started together on this date in 2005. As we said in the latest…

  • Three things to make QR codes worthwhile

    No surprises in this AdAge story about widespread use of QR codes that haven’t captured consumer imagination when it includes this statement: “Experts cite three reasons that QR codes haven’t caught on. First, people are confused about how to scan…

  • A golden milestone to mark a decade

    The Golden Age of tech blogging is over, says Jeremiah Owyang in his post on December 27. […] Like the film industry, the Golden Era is the emergence period, when fresh innovation in a new medium is born. New techniques,…

  • Engaging outside the inbox

    Doing some email housekeeping earlier this morning, I got thinking about the futility of much of one’s day-to-day email. Even though I’ve been using a nifty program called NEO Pro for the better part of the past decade that sits…