by Rob Cottingham | Aug 9, 2005 | Communicating, How to..., Technology
At long last, Google News has enabled RSS feeds on news searches. Now, suddenly, Google’s e-mailed news alerts are just so five queries ago. You want to keep on top of news coverage of a particular subject? Say, the name of your organization, or its... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 8, 2005 | Communicating, Politics, Technology
Short of actually causing a loss of human life, a major oil spill or the bulldozing of an orphanage, companies don’t often have a worse stretch of PR than Telus has weathered over the past few weeks. Just as the dust was settling from the site-blocking fiasco, a... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 8, 2005 | Communicating, Technology
Hey, I’ve made the big time – my comment on the phrases “they don’t get it” and “going forward” made it onto the latest podcast of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report. Apart from shameless self-promotion, you... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 6, 2005 | Communicating, Technology
Wondering what podcasting is, and what it means for public relations practitioners? Just listen to last week’s episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report – which is itself a podcast, and if you don’t know what the means,... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 6, 2005 | Technology
Alex, researching her prospects for dumping Entourage, says: Note to developers: giving your software generic names like “Mail” and “Address Book” makes it very very hard for nice people like me to find out about your software using the Google method. Damn... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 4, 2005 | How to..., Technology
I’ve been poking around Address Book (seeing if there’s a way out of MS Entourage for me, too, since Alex has found hers). The first address I wanted to add was Will Pate’s, from Raincity Studios. And, this being Will, I wanted to add the...