Archives: May 2006

Podcasts for occupational therapists: A shot in the dark

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 31, Categories: podcasting, society

I read this note on Dave Winer's blog: Fran: "I talked to over one hundred occupational therapists, and only 3 had ever heard of podcasting." My first thought: What...

Ne Plus Ultra of Social Networking

Posted by: Heather Green on May 31, Categories:

About a new social networking site called HINCity that's tied tot he Hot Import Nights show and is apparently a new networking site that broke off from MySpace.

This Week's Podcast with Al Tepper

Posted by: Heather Green on May 31, Categories: podcasting

On this week's BW Cutting Edge podcast we chat with Al Tepper, the founding editor of the City Hippy blog. This is a popular personal blog out of the UK that's devoted to learning about sustainability.

Horrors: Blackberry duplicate reviews

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 30, Categories: BusinessWeek, mobile

Bad day for a reviewer. I just learned that BW Online already ran a review on the Blackberry that I just reviewed. So I got my draft sent back to...

I bought the Blackberry I was reviewing

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 29, Categories: mobile

I guess it's the ultimate endorsement by the tech gadget reviewer: I bought a replica of the Blackberry I was reviewing. I'd been using it on my travels for the...

Out to the West Coast

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 29, Categories: BusinessWeek

I'm flying to Portland today, and then down to the San Francisco area for reporting. I think Heather's on the road. I can't OK comments with this computer. I'm told...

Props on Abigail Johnson's New Blog

Posted by: Heather Green on May 28, Categories: new blogs

So just want to take a minute to congratulate Abigail Johnson (someone I have worked with for quite a while!), for her new blog, The High Concept. We have talked...

More controversy over Ford ads in gay magazine

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 28, Categories: advertising, society

Should Christians boycott Ford? That's the question posed on the Pine Blog following the lastest publication of Ford ads in the gay press, this time in the Advocate. I'm...

Inside the Hotel Chelsea

Posted by: Heather Green on May 27, Categories: society

An intriguing blog--the Hotel Chelsea Blog--written by two long-time inhabitants of this storied NYC hotel.

Workblogging Blog: A Treasure Trove of Anonymous Blogs

Posted by: Heather Green on May 26, Categories: society

James Richards' blog is a great source for delving into the world of employee blogs.

YouTube Keeps Going and Going.

Posted by: Heather Green on May 25, Categories: digital media

According to Hitwise, YouTube's marketshare of visits increased 160% over the past three months, keeping it well ahead of MySpace Videos.

How about a national identity and health IDs?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 24, Categories: society

How much of our medical data is flying around from doctors to insurers to credit card companies? Lots. And yet when we go to a hospital emergency room they don't...

Barbaro's Blog

Posted by: Heather Green on May 24, Categories: new blogs

On a story about Barbaro on the radio this morning mentioned that the vet center where the racehorse is being treated has set up an email account for him. But what Barbaro needs is a blog.

This Week's Podcast with Gristmill's Dave Roberts

Posted by: Heather Green on May 24, Categories: podcasting

This week's guest on BW's Cutting Edge podcast is Dave Roberts, founding editor of Gristmill, one of the top blogs in a group of newly emerging green blogs.

P&G, Online, and Word of Mouth

Posted by: Heather Green on May 23, Categories: advertising

Church of the Customer points to a new study that finds that most word of mouth occurs primarily offline.

Driving West

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 22, Categories:

I'm packing up the rental car for a drive from New Jersey to Pittsburgh. The car has a CD player, so I'm busy burning podcasts--a slow and wasteful process. I'll...

Da Vinci and hard math

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 22, Categories: society

Naturally, The current top books section of Technorati includes two versions of The Da Vinci code. But sandwiched between them is a 530-page math tome, The Pi-Calculus. Bruce Silver...

Spotting trendsetters at warp speed

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 20, Categories: international, research

Shel Israel and Rick Segal are going to circumnavigate the globe to find trendsetting companies. [ex Weinberger] Good idea, I say, but why do it in 23 days? In my...

Web 3.0?? Save me now

Posted by: Heather Green on May 20, Categories:

Are we really ready to tackle the phrase Web 3.0?

Are books dead?

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

So here I am on book leave, and the ever provocative Jeff Jarvis declares that books are history. As David Weinberger taught me, they limit how knowledge can be...

I am an entrepreneur

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

"Entrepreneurs are risk takers and dreamers and doers. Entrepreneurs and small businesses play a crucial role in the U.S. economy." -President Bush The Fed-Ex man just delivered my certificate...

Hollywood Games

Posted by: Heather Green on May 19, Categories: digital media

After tracking the TV upfronts this year to learn more about Hollywood's digital offerings, a main theme that stands out is the proliferation of games tied to shows.

Conference Dynamics

Posted by: Heather Green on May 18, Categories:

Yesterday I was on a panel at the Syndicate Conference here in NYC and it was odd. Looking across the room, I was treated to the sight of people bathed...

Canadian fighting words

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 18, Categories: Inside Companies, business blogging

Debbie Weil attends the Mesh conference in Toronto and reports (and then quickly amends) that Canadians appear a step behind in blogging. I commented on her blog that geography doesn't...

Yahoo's Analyst Day Presentation

Posted by: Heather Green on May 18, Categories:

Courtesy of Susan Mernit, here's Yahoo's analyst day presentation from yesterday. Haven't had a chance to look through it yet....

Bluejake: looking at Manhattan on a Manhattan laptop

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 17, Categories: photos

Check out this photo site, BlueJake. He has great big shots of New York, and he puts a big one on the front page nearly every day. It's strange being...

This Week's Podcast with Treehugger

Posted by: Heather Green on May 17, Categories: podcasting

The guest on this week's on BW' Cutting Edge podcast is Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger. Hill talks about why he started the blog, which tracks the latest in aesthetic but sustainable products, whether it’s a dog house or a purse.

Telcos mum on wiretaps--until they get sued

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 17, Categories: mainstream media

Now Verizon and BellSouth say that USA Today got it wrong on the wiretapping story. I went back to the original story to make sure that the reporters called...

Inside the Upfronts With the NYTimes

Posted by: Heather Green on May 16, Categories: digital media

Little on NYTimes reporter Virginia Heffernan's live blogging the TV network's Upfront presentations. (Where the big channels present their lineups for the fall).

Ego Candy

Posted by: Heather Green on May 16, Categories:

Bear with me for the moment....I had to look Blogspotting up on Technorati's new baseball scorecard that shows your rank, tags, Alexa data, etc. (Via Steve Rubel) and we're ranked...

Slate's textcasts: Can you listen to music at the same time?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 16, Categories: digital media, mobile

It looks like Slate is preparing to offer textcasts of its written content. I wouldn't mind having something to read on the iPod. But the problem is this: The text...

Salon's Video Dog

Posted by: Heather Green on May 16, Categories:

How the edgy Video Dog service on Salon became the news site's second most popular feature.

Bubble 2.0 Talk

Posted by: Heather Green on May 15, Categories:

Given the talk about whether there is a bubble, a late afternoon plug for a story Justin Hibbard and Heather Green wrote about exactly that topic: Bubble Talk.

Google Pontiac? Or Ask dot com it?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 15, Categories: advertising, search

Are ads, sponsored links and search engine optimization screwing up search results? I just did a little test, and my conclusion is Yes. From now on, I'm going to start...

Boeing, Blogs, and New Web Smart Podcast

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

BW is starting a monthly feature in the magazine called Web Smart that's being paired with a podcast.

RSS, Podcasting, Blogs: Who Wins?

Posted by: Heather Green on May 13, Categories: search

The results from Google Topics on RSS, podcasting, and blogs gives credence to the insight you can get from search.

RFID: Tracking every step of a conventioneer

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 13, Categories: marketing, society

I've spent the last couple of days at a Marketing Metrics conference in Austin. The theme, which we sounded in the math cover, is that data analytics are growing more...

A law against MySpace in schools could backfire

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 12, Categories: society, spam and other abuses

OK, it makes sense to try to keep cyber creeps out of schools, but a law banning social network sites? That could keep out even Yahoo and Google. UPDATE. By...

Energy crisis: Why we should study Gen. Grant

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 12, Categories: Weekend Rant

I was walking through the University of Texas campus yesterday, looking at all these students wearing backpacks equipped with a water bottle. I thought of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. His...

Weblogs Inc. Takes Ohio

Posted by: Heather Green on May 11, Categories:

Missed this debut, but in talking with the folks at Weblogs Inc. yesterday they mentioned that they started launching local blogs....starting with OHIO.

YouTube Goes Mobile

Posted by: Heather Green on May 10, Categories:

It was only a matter of time and now it's happened. YouTube kicked off a service today that lets people upload videos from their phones and PDAs.

The 1% Rule

Posted by: Heather Green on May 10, Categories: digital media

The Church of the Customer writes about the about the 1% Rule--Where 1% of participants at a site end up creating most of the content. (While according to Yahoo's Bradley Horowitz, 10% actively interact with it, while the rest remains more of an audience.)

I've got just the car for you

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 09, Categories: society

Maybe I'm just too lucky. I'm flying to Austin tomorrow, and when it comes to renting a car in the heart of Texas, they have great deals on SUVs! I...

What journalists don't know about Google

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 09, Categories: advertising

John Battelle sets up Google Adwords. He finds it a snap and learns a lot, and he wonders how many of the analysts covering GOOG have experienced this side of...

Warner Brothers to Use BitTorrent

Posted by: Heather Green on May 09, Categories: digital media

In a big step forward for file sharing technology, Warner Brothers is announcing today that it will sell movies and TV shows using BitTorrent.

MySpace Guide

Posted by: Heather Green on May 08, Categories:

So, how do you navigate MySpace? One option is Spacecadetz, a guide of content, music, and videos. Now, the blog has done its first interview with Al Cabino, the man behind the campaign to bring back the Nikes featured in Back to the Future II.

Weekend Glitch

Posted by: Heather Green on May 08, Categories:

Apologies for not being able to get to comments this weekend. Access glitch. It gave me a chance to notice blog spam seems to be picking up again....

Inquirer blogs Bonds' at-bats

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

Anyone obsessively keeping up with Barry Bonds' home-run march might want to check out the Philly Inquirer's sports editor blog today. It's snarky but knowledgeable commentary, with good pitch-by-pitch...

Jumping the Shark: MySpace and GE's Elli

Posted by: Heather Green on May 06, Categories: advertising

I am all in favor of trying out new media, believe me. But when I saw that Elli the Elephant has a Myspace profile as part of GE's One-Second Theater advertising campaign, it just made no sense to me.

Why journalists should ask dumb questions

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 05, Categories: mainstream media

Yes, in a post yesterday I complained that journalists often don't bother covering how things work. A couple of comments seconded the motion, accusing us of ignorance and worse. I...

Steven Soderbergh to Use BitTorrent

Posted by: Heather Green on May 05, Categories: digital media

At a panel this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, director Steven Soderbergh said he planned to use BitTorrent to release a short he's doing.

Even when it's down, Technorati spouts the truth

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 04, Categories: politics, search

Technorati appears to be down, and that produced this troubling response to my search there: "There are no posts that contain truth in blogs about Politics yet. Search all blogs...

Why journalists don't cover how things work

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 04, Categories: mainstream media

For two days in Miami, I circulated in a large conference wearing a badge that said press. I didn't see any others. This was a conference of operations research. This...

This Week's Podcast With WestportNow

Posted by: Heather Green on May 03, Categories:

This week's Cutting Edge podcast is a chat with Gordon Joseloff, founder of the local citizen media service WestportNow.

Micro TV And Horses

Posted by: Heather Green on May 03, Categories: digital media

Equitrekking, at TV production company has launched its own video channel online using Brightcove's technology

Sphere search engine looks promising

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 02, Categories:

I'm sitting in a hotel lobby in Miami, mathematicians buzzing around me, and trying out the new Sphere search engine. It looks promising, and fairly fast. TechCrunch has a thorough...