Archives: July 2005

MIT's open-source story brings bloggers in

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 31, Categories: mainstream media

Open-source journalism at MIT's Tech Review produces informative article, but lacks strong point of view

Should mainstream journalists blog?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 30, Categories: mainstream media

A response to the question of whether mainstream journalists should blog.

On Getting Scooped and Current TV

Posted by: Heather Green on July 29, Categories:

After getting scooped by the NYTimes on a story on Current TV, a little on what can be learned from video bloggers about the new cable channel backed by Al Gore.

Participatory Culture's Countdown

Posted by: Heather Green on July 29, Categories: digital media

Ditty on Participatory Culture, the open source digital video service that's close to launching a beta version.

Are the aggregators so bad?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 29, Categories:

Are RSS aggregators as bad as Dave Winer suggests?

Boeing Blog and Engaging Criticism

Posted by: Heather Green on July 28, Categories: business blogging

Good example of how Randy Baseler, Boeing's vice president of marketing for Commercial Airplanes, effectively uses his blog to engage criticism.

A directory of Google maps

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 28, Categories: How To

Points to a directory of Google maps

The end of a company, blogged

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 27, Categories: business blogging

The CEO of iFulfill.com blogs the demise of his company

Pod-slurping: Help, there's storage everywhere!

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 27, Categories: spam and other abuses

Data-slurping iPods pose security risks in the workplace, but the solution isn't to crack down on memory devices.

Taking a Look at the Mindjet Blog

Posted by: Heather Green on July 27, Categories: business blogging

MSNBC does short profile on the foray into corporate blogging by Mindjet, a Larkspur, Calif.-based software company.

Flickr's related tags point to new search

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 27, Categories: search

Flickr's tag-related browser leads photo search toward broad themes.

Wiki proposal: Cell phone directory

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 26, Categories: mobile

Editor proposes a Wiki-based cell-phone directory.

Blogs and popups

Posted by: Heather Green on July 26, Categories: advertising

So, I have, umm, been noticing a lot of popups on blogs these days. Are other people noticing the same thing and does it dissuade you from visiting a blog?...

How corporations track the blogs: A blogger weighs in

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 26, Categories: Inside Companies

A corporate blogger tells of the troves of competitive data he finds trawling the blogs

Newsweek rounds up blogs. Should others follow?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 26, Categories: mainstream media

Newsweek links to blog comments on its stories. Should BusinessWeek follow suit?

More Bloggers Needed

Posted by: Heather Green on July 26, Categories: new blogs

Ensight is also looking to bloggers, raising the question of whether there will soon be a scarcity of bloggers for these new startup blog networks.

Looking for bloggers: the prereqs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 26, Categories: skills

A blog business is looking for bloggers who are witty and opinionated. Authority and accuracy are not stressed.

Confused about blog search? Read this.

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 25, Categories: search

Mary Hodder analyses different blog search engines. First in a series.

MSN virtual Earth: Where's Apple?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 25, Categories:

A reader points out that MSN's new "virtual earth" leaves Apple headquarters out of Cupertino. Here's Google's version. This point is popping up elsewhere....

Next Act from the Rocketboom Folks: Humanwire

Posted by: Heather Green on July 25, Categories: video blogging

The folks from the Rocketboom video blog plan to launch Humanwire, a broader network of updated video tidbits.

How do companies track internal bloggers?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 25, Categories: Inside Companies

Looking for companies that track anonymous corporate blogging

Blogs vs. Mainstream: Who's sloppier?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 23, Categories: mainstream media

Sloppiness in a magazine article sparks more blog vs. mainstream debate. Baker argues that operations at mainstream publications can actually contribute to errors.

Blog Poetry for a Friday

Posted by: Heather Green on July 22, Categories: How To

This is a wonderful bit of writing from Shelley Powers about the the care and feeding of webloggers. Just the thing for a sweltering summer Friday afternoon. That and a...

BusinessWeek bends banner for design

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 22, Categories: mainstream media

BusinessWeek bends banner on cover, and introduces new online design channal

Quote Foul!

Posted by: Heather Green on July 22, Categories:

"Everyone is famous for 15 people." I claim this quote in today's New York Times story on podcasting for David Weinberger! I claim it from the forces that would turn...

Happy News looking for citizen journalists

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 22, Categories: new blogs

Happy News, a new site for upbeat stories, is on the hunt for citizen journalists with a certain skip in their step.

Eater: the latest from Lockhart Steele

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 22, Categories: new blogs

Lockhart Steele, who turned real estate blog Curbed into a sensation, launches a New York restaurant blog

Huffington Post Revisted

Posted by: Heather Green on July 21, Categories: new blogs

Tiny post since I am busy reporting a story for the magazine this week. Checking out the updated BlogPulse blog tracking service and stumbled across this top 100 list of...

What happens to a blog when it takes ads?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 21, Categories: advertising

Response to Dave Winer's thesis that blogs that accept ads are fundamentally different.

Calling All Citizen Journalists

Posted by: Heather Green on July 21, Categories: mainstream media

On Mainstream Media reaching out to citizen journalists.

Driver wows judge with Google map

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 21, Categories: search

Combine the power of Wi-Fi with Google maps, and you get stories like this one, where the defendent in New York traffic court shows the judge on a laptop that...

Wanted: Global bike maps

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 20, Categories: society

A call for cyclists to create an open-source map of bike routes--if they haven't already done it.

The Search for Influential Bloggers

Posted by: Heather Green on July 20, Categories: blog technology

Will tools that efficiently and quickly unearth influential blogs or blog discussions become the holy grail for marketers?

Editorial processes: the magazine vs. the blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 19, Categories: mainstream media

A look at BusinessWeek's editorial process, and the challenges it raises for mainstream bloggers.

Technorati's Sifry says RSS will succeed by disappearing

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 19, Categories: RSS

Technorati's Sifry says that RSS will gain a broad audience by disappearing

Is iTunes Hurting Indie Podcasts?

Posted by: Heather Green on July 19, Categories: podcasting

Is iTunes Hurting Indie Podcasts? Frank Barnako at MarketWatch thinks so.

History site shows presidential campaign ads

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 19, Categories: society

A new Michigan State site shows presidential campaign ads

Big staff changes at BusinessWeek

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 18, Categories: mainstream media

Staff changes at BusinessWeek show growing importance of Online.

Paid Content's Rafat Ali on Balancing Advertising and Reporting

Posted by: Heather Green on July 18, Categories: digital media

Chat with Rafat Ali, founder of PaidContent, the blog that covers digital media about balancing being an entrepreneur and a writer.

How the blind navigate iPods

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 18, Categories: podcasting

A question for the crowd: How do blind people navigate on iPods?

GM's Vice Chairman Pushes Blogs

Posted by: Heather Green on July 18, Categories: business blogging

Late link to GM's Bob Lutz commentary on blogging.

Small business blogs: A selection

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 17, Categories: business blogging

Blogspotting asked for recommendations of small-biz blogs. The results ranged from a new Hollywood producer to a suburban Pittsburgh coffee shop.

Out of the darkness came Albus Dumbledore.

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 16, Categories: Weekend Rant

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006545.html#006545

Japanese promote TV commercials

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 15, Categories: advertising

Japanese government to promote TV commercials, according to CNET

Bloggers Favorite Posts? Ones about Themselves, of Course

Posted by: Heather Green on July 15, Categories: mainstream media

In which we talk about how we are on a list of intro blogs compiled by the NYTImes.

EDS Blog: Brilliant or Naive?

Posted by: Heather Green on July 15, Categories: business blogging

EDS has a new blog called the Next Big Thing dedicated to uncovering the future of technology.

On the lookout for small business blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 15, Categories: new blogs

Stephen Baker is looking for small business blogs.

The Evolution of RSS, According to Yahoo

Posted by: Heather Green on July 14, Categories: RSS

Yahoo RSS guru Scott Gatz discusses the evolution of RSS.

BW story on blog search

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 14, Categories:

BW article takes a look at blog search--and when Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will descend on the market

A podcast screed--against podcasts

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 14, Categories: podcasting

A podcast eloquently defends the written word--but there's no stopping the spread of rich media

The Craft of Blog Writing

Posted by: Heather Green on July 14, Categories: How To

This sweet soliloquy by Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World about how blogging improves your writing skills dovetails into some thinking I have been doing lately. I do believe that...

Bloglines Mark Fletcher envisions ideal blog search

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 14, Categories: search

Bloglines CEO outlines ideal blog search--and says his new search engine will be coming soon.

Technorati traffic jam

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 13, Categories:

Here's a graph of the Technorati lag time in processing search queries on "New York." I just tried it myself. Took 10.6 seconds. The first post, just to sample the...

Tour de France blogger steers clear of promoting sponsor

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 13, Categories: marketing

Tour de France sweepstakes winner blogs well--and without hyping the sponsor

Podcasting Down Under

Posted by: Heather Green on July 13, Categories: podcasting

The Podcast Network, a startup that pulls together a handful of podcast shows (ok around 30), says its number of downloads more than doubled between May and June to 205,766.

Does the Blogosphere Kill Letters to the Editor?

Posted by: Heather Green on July 13, Categories: mainstream media

News & Record Letters to the Editor blog struggles with trolls.

Blogger takes on Land Rover, aggressively

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 13, Categories: business blogging

An angry blogger takes on Land Rover, and provides companies with a cautionary case study.

Study tests BW blog--and users say Huh?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 12, Categories: blog technology

A user study shows that most Websurfers are mystified by blog tools and lingo.

Get That Geekiness out of Blogs

Posted by: Heather Green on July 12, Categories: blog technology

Small study by Catalyst Design Group finds that navigating blogs and RSS is confusing for folks.

Podcasting with a missing piece

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 12, Categories: podcasting

Blogspotting welcomes nominations for podcasts--and laments broken iPod.

Is Blog Plagiarism Growing--and are the Fakes Convincing?

Posted by: Heather Green on July 12, Categories: spam and other abuses

Wondering whether, in the wake of a couple of obvious plagiarised blogs, whether the practice is one the rise.

Evolving from blog post to story

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 12, Categories: mainstream media

A look at the changes as a blog post evolves into a story

More on Blog Search and Aggregating

Posted by: Heather Green on July 11, Categories:

More powder for Joe Kraus' point made here earlier that the real strength of Technorati and Feedster lies in tracking trends in the blogosphere --rather than dishing up simple search....

PubSub's Wyman expects Google and Yahoo to plow into blog search

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 11, Categories: search

PubSub's Wyman says that blog search will be a snap for Google and Yahoo

What's the Worth of Blog Search?

Posted by: Heather Green on July 11, Categories: blog technology

Chat with Joe Kraus, co-founder of Wiki upstart Jotspot about the true utility of blog search services.

Adsense: Is it worth bothering with?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 11, Categories:

Is Google's Adsense worth more than pocketchange to stand-along bloggers?

More on podcasts, from Mark Cuban

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 11, Categories: podcasting

Mark Cuban rains on the business model for podcasts

Are podcasts bad promotional tools?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 10, Categories: podcasting

A discussion on whether podcasts work as business promotion and communication tools

Frustrated bloggers to search giants: Help!

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 09, Categories: search

Bloggers are petitioning Google and Yahoo to hurry into blog search

Yahoo is testing blog and RSS search

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 08, Categories: search

Yahoo appears to be developing a search tool for blog and RSS

Why Technorati feels slow

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 08, Categories: search

Responding to a complaint that Technorati is running slowly, the company's chief engineer details the challenges in blog search.

Tug of war at BW between online edition and blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 08, Categories: mainstream media

New battles in journalism: BW editors tussle over whether an item should be blogged or placed on BW Online.

Seeing both sides of the Judith Miller case

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 07, Categories: mainstream media

The judge in the Judith Miller case can send a reporter to jail--but shouldn't ridicule her stand

New BW blog probes housing deals and steals

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 07, Categories: new blogs

A new BusinessWeek real estate blog, Hot Property, shows a mouthwatering deal in Youngstown, Ohio.

Mobile Internet: a story of stagnation

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 06, Categories: mobile

Stagnating usage of the mobile Internet is an embarrassment for the mobile phone industry--one that could open the doors to outside challengers.

Blogging biker on the trail of Lance Armstrong

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 06, Categories: marketing

The first winner Suburu's Tour de France blogging sweepstakes is a marketing exec who steers clear of blogs.

Is Apple old school?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 06, Categories: marketing

Apple represents a throwback to old-style command-control companies--or does it?

Forget about toothpaste. Education needs a consumer revolution

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 06, Categories: society

New math teaching tools will create loads of data on how students learn--and could lead to a bottom's up reform of education.

Venture plows into RSS

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 05, Categories: RSS

RSS is leading toward dramatic change, even if investment returns are uncertain.

French food blogger creates magic in New York

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 05, Categories: new blogs

A BusinessWeek staffer goes to meet a French food blogger in New York--and happens upon a crowd

French bloggers in BW

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 05, Categories: international

BusinessWeek takes a look at French blogs, and points to a few

Will citizen journalists cover City Hall?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 05, Categories: new blogs

Dan Gillmor's new citizen's media venture, Bayosphere, starts off short on local news.

Trackback spam hits new high

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 04, Categories: spam and other abuses

Blogspotting is facing an onslaught of trackback spam. For now, it's easy to detect, but not for long.

How to appeal to non-bloggers? Think virus wikis

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 02, Categories: new blogs

Tools like a new virus wiki could bring in new types of bloggers

The Continuing Saga of Blogs and Biking

Posted by: Heather Green on July 01, Categories: business blogging

Major trade magazine for biking industry does story on blogging and the bicycle biz.

Unleash the Vespas!

Posted by: Heather Green on July 01, Categories: business blogging

Vespa junkies, rev your engines. The first blog in Vespa's campaign of working with fan bloggers launched today. It's called Vespaway.