If you’ve heard about the blow-up between Six Apart’s Mena Trott and a Les Blogs participant, you can actually view a video of the exchange.

Video cameras are everywhere-even in cell phones (including mine), and vidcasting will make content like this commonplace. There’s no hiding any more.

Jeremy Pepper has a terrific review of Nokia’s blogger relations initiative around its new phone. BL Ochman didn’t like the effort, but I’m glad to see a company take blogger relations serious enough to create a program around it.

Dion Hinchcliffe has a fabulous listing of the best Web software of 2005.

Dr. TJ Larkin, speaking at the IABC Research Foundation luncheon in June, suggested the Web is a terrible channel for learning. The Michigan State Board of Education apparently disagrees. The Board is considering requiring high school students complete at least one online class as a requirement for graduation in order to prepare them for the online world that has become an integral part of university life. Hat tip: Boing Boing

The Baltimore Sun has an article about business podcasting: “In what amounts to a nationwide social experiment, corporate America is testing whether this cheap and quirky medium proves useful in the battle to reach the public, communicate meaningfully with employees and keep costs down.” Free registration required. Hat tip: The Social Customer Manifesto

Search Engine Watch reports that podcast search engine Podscope has set up RSS feeds for keywords found in podcasts.

From the New York Times, an article on the rise of vidcasts.

Shel Holtz is principal of Holtz Communication + Technology which focuses on helping organizations apply online communication capabilities to their strategic organizational communications.

As a professional communicator, Shel also writes the blog a shel of my former self.