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Full story: PodPress, Nokia N70 and easy video
One of the best WordPress plugins I use is PodPress. This useful tool lets you deliver podcasts from your site without having to worry about any of the technical aspects of how to offer your podcast. When you write your post, you just click a few links to include the location of your MP3 file, a bit of a description, etc, and the plugin takes care of everything else including figuring out the file size and the time length of…
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Full story: Dreamhost tells it like it is
In my overnight email last night was the latest customer newsletter from Dreamhost, the hosting service I use for this blog, and with whom I started a relationship in February. One of the things I like a lot about Dreamhost is their frequent and relevant communication. Not so much the email newsletter but rather the way in which this company approaches keeping customers in the picture about overall service and, importantly, what’s happening when things go wrong. To that end,…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #159: July 31, 2006
Content summary: Vote for FIR in Podcast Awards 2006; listeners’ reactions to 25% variable speed FIR version; eBay invests in Meetup.com; a new voice at GM FastLane: chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner writes a post; Johnson & Johnson and blogging moms; activeCollab looks promising; JotSpot upgrade; PR Web embraces new media in press release distribution; BASF podcasts for agriculture journalists; Second Life update; co-creation podcast; Cyworld launches in the US; if all the internet’s a stage, why don’t CEOs use…
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Full story: activeCollab looks promising
I’ve never been very good with project management tools. Most I’ve used seem too complex for my taste and never that easy to understand and use. Until now, my main experience has been with Microsoft Project. Yet my experience with that has been reflected by others with whom I’ve been using the tool: complex and not easy to use. So I tend to use tools like Excel and Access to keep track of things. Unquestionably the wrong types of tool…
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Full story: The world’s happiest country is Denmark
If you live in Denmark, count yourself as highly fortunate – it has the highest satisfaction with life rating of any country in the world, according to research data from Adrian White, analytic social psychologist at the University of Leicester in England. White has published the World Map of Happiness, an interactive map that illustrates interational differences of happiness among the people of 177 countries. The map is based on an analysis of results from over 100 studies. The concept…











