Archives: May 2008

Looking for more CEO resume tweets

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 30, Categories: Twitter

Well, I should have known. The editor wants CEO and other celeb Twitter resumes for the BusinessWeek piece. Yes, she'd probably go for a wonderfully imaginative everyman/woman example. But the...

Readers to BW columnist: No jokes

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

Readers don't appreciate Roben Farzad's lighthearted call for windfall tax on Google.

Twitter resumes: You're a... lobster?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 30, Categories: Twitter

I'm looking through these Twittery resumes, and I divide them into two types: One for appealing to machines (or people acting like machines), and the other for connecting with humans....

Write 140-char resumes for BW

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

Calling all entries: BusinessWeek is looking for 140-character resumes of top CEOs, politicians, and everybody else.

Would you miss BusinessWeek if it disappeared?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 28, Categories: BusinessWeek

Brand Autopsy, in part of an ongoing series, asks: Would you miss BusinessWeek if it went poof?

Good Time For a blog about horse racing

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 28, Categories: new blogs

(Another post from traveling Heather) I grew up riding horses and watching steeplechase racing. That’s the kind of races run over fields of grass rather than dirt. So, I used...

The 140-character resume: a celebration of glib?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 27, Categories: skills

Lots of interesting comments to Beyond Blog cover. Chris Boese objects to the idea of a 140-character resume: ...While some employers may like the elevator pitch resume, I'd say the...

Chevy Green Web: What Kind of Conversational Marketing?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 27, Categories: marketing

Chevy's Green Web has features a lot more marketing than conversation

Business at Work: Need Help

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 23, Categories: BusinessWeek

A plea for help for a BusinessWeek special report on work/life issues

BW cover story, Beyond Blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 23, Categories: BusinessWeek

This may be getting as tiresome and anticlimactic as American Idol, but... That rewrite of the blog cover story we've been talking about for ages is finally in print. Turned...

Google-YouTube: Was it worth $1.6 billion?

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

What value does YouTube give Google?

Huffington and Jarvis on the future of media

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 21, Categories: mainstream media

For that blog cover redo we've been talking about for long months, we asked a number of bloggers to opine of the future of media. Here are the responses from...

Heather's looking for Paris suggestions

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

Heather flew to Paris last night and left me this note to blog: I forgot to ask! I am off to Paris for a couple of weeks and meant to...

This Week's Digital Dish

Posted by: Heather Green on May 19, Categories:

This week we discuss Hewlett Packard's $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS, Carl Icahn's play for Yahoo, eBay and Craigslist's legal wrangling, and CBS' buy of CNET...

Freeing our data

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 19, Categories: personal data

Dave Winer calls for awards for companies that let us export the data we accumulate on their sites. In other words, if we rate a lot of movies on Netflix,...

Needed: Help creating a book blog

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 18, Categories: Books

Hey, I need to come up with a book blog for The Numerati. (Yes, we're replacing that ghostlike cover image) Turns out the publisher pays for lots of things, including...

Journalism on Twitter: Too much PR?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 18, Categories:

While attempting to collaborate with Twitterers for my latest story, I got one Tweet (which I can't find) asking me how many of the responses came from PR pros and...

Playing games to teach computers at CMU

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 15, Categories: research

Luis von Ahn, the Carnegie Mellon comp sci professor who invented the security guards known as captchas (squiggly letters you have to type in), specializes in getting people to solve...

IM Actually Makes Teens More Innovative Linguistically

Posted by: Heather Green on May 15, Categories:

So apparently parents need to chill out. A new study from the University of Toronto appearing in New Scientist finds that online shorthand isn't harming teenagers' language skills. It actually...

The Twitter Story I've been working on

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 15, Categories: Twitter

Do businesses (and the rest of us) need Twitter? Is it around for the long haul. Dozens of Twitterers added to the reporting.

WorldWide Telescope Rocks

Posted by: Heather Green on May 13, Categories:

I was lucky enough to be able to try out the WorldWide Telescope that Microsoft launched today and to talk to some of the folks who worked on the project...

This Week's Digital Dish

Posted by: Heather Green on May 12, Categories:

Here's this week's Digital Dish video show, in which we wonder whether the Microsoft/Yahoo dance is really over and size up Microsoft vs. Google and News Corp.'s slumping Internet...

Sorting through Twitter comments: overwhelmed

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

Did you know that sometimes it's easier to write an article when you've done minimal reporting? It's true. You have the reporting equivalent of a tarp and two poles, you...

Rubel wrong on Renaissance dead-end

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

Steve Rubel writes that the future belongs to deep specialists and asks if this is the demise of the Renaissance person--the Leonardo-types who can master multiple disciplines. He cites Seth...

Twitter story (open thread)

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 08, Categories: Twitter

UPDATE: Instead of sentence by sentence, I'm now twittering just the topic sentences for each paragraph. The reason: To get people engaged, the sentence has to state a position and...

Twittering a story on Twitter: Today

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 08, Categories: Twitter

UPDATE: You can follow the story on this thread. the best way to keep up with the conversation is to follow this link. Starting at 2:30 eastern today, I'm going...

Looking for blog recommendations

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 07, Categories: BusinessWeek

I'm talking to some BW colleagues about blogging today. Jeff Jarvis was in last week and gave a great talk. In fact, one of my colleagues, whom I already considered...

IBM's del.icio.us: A big hit

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 06, Categories: Inside Companies

I was talking yesterday to Irene Greif, an IBM fellow who heads up IBM's collaborative user research, and her colleague, Joan Dimicco. Some nuggets: IBM's internal social network, BeeHive, has...

This Week's Digital Dish

Posted by: Heather Green on May 05, Categories:

This week, we have a special guest, Peter Kafka from Silicon Alley Insider. (He and Arik used to work together at Forbes.) We dish on Microhoo (what else), the...

The coming battle over content: employee vs boss

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 01, Categories: Jobs

Fantastic comments on the future of social media. Thanks so much, and keep adding. This is a work in process. Here's one on the future of our careers that especially...