Category: new blogs

Tracker News battles the bots

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 22

For the last two weeks I’ve been tracking Tracker News, a Web site that brings together a nice blend of health, humanitarian and medical news. It’s worth a look, as…

My 10 favorite blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 13

The people at Six Apart asked me for a list of my 10 favorite blogs. I’m often suspicious of these lists, because people naturally include their friends’ blogs—and once you…

An insider’s look at Russia-Georgia

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 11

Not to put ourselves down, but most readers wouldn’t think to look to BusinessWeek for the latest on the Russia-Georgia conflagration. But we have Steve Levine on staff now. He’s…

Working Lunch: What kind of blog should it be?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 21

Should Michael Orey open his new Working Lunch blog to the chomping masses?

Bangalore Tigers goes global

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 04

Colleague Steve Hamm is morphing his Bangalore Tigers into a broader one called Globespotting (no link yet). His idea is that Bangalore Tigers started off focused on Indian outsourcing (and…

Good Time For a blog about horse racing

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 28

(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…

Passive-Aggressive Notes

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 22

Talk about clueless… Here we are “covering” blogs at this magazine, and unbeknownst to us, our colleague, Kerry Miller, has developed a rip-roaring, hilarious blog that appears to get massive…

Spencer Ante’s new blog on venture capital

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 08

Our colleague Spencer Ante has written the biography of a pioneer in the venture capital world, Frenchman Georges Doriot. It’s coming out this spring. He’s also got a new blog,…

Happy Happy New Year

Posted by: Heather Green on January 01

It’s a rainy New Year’s Day here in the outskirts of NYC. Last night, my husband went up on the roof and watched the crowds across the Hudson in Times…

Fake Larry Ellison rings true

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 14

I enjoyed the e-mail interview between BW’s Steve Hamm and the fake Larry Ellison. It’s interesting to me how much research and preparation he put into the short-lived blog. And…

NoImpactMan builds community

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 31

Colin Beavan, a friend and author who’s writing a memoir of a year spent treading ever so lightly on the planet, has a very popular blog. It’s a great way…

Yet another new BW blog: Green Biz

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 23

I just found this one today. Green Biz. It’s the work of Adam Aston, my New York pal, and John Carey, from the Washington bureau. Here’s my question for them:…

New BW blog, new template

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 21

I’ve been thinking about the design of this blog and, frankly, I’m not loving it. Lots of you have blogs that are better looking. So I was thinking of…

Who is sick? Who posts?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 23

Just taking a quick look at Who is Sick, a Twitter for illness (ex Matthew Hurst). I’ve talked quite a bit with researchers at Yahoo about this type of service….

Dataminer goes to Microsoft

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 27

I see that Matthew Hurst of the excellent Datamining blog is pulling up his roots from his Pittsburgh base at Nielsen BuzzMetrics and moving to Microsoft’s Live Labs in Seattle….

Blogspotting: That’s what she said

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 14

At the HR Hero Blog, featured in BW last week, human resources specialist named Julie Elgar focuses on the outrages that take place on NBC’s The Office—and puts a litigation…

Blogspotting: an SEC number cruncher

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 07

We run an item in the paper magazine called Blogspotting, which points to interesting and/or useful blogs about all sorts of subjects. I was reading it yesterday and thought we…

Methodist social networking: click tab for prayer

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 29

Just got a news release about the United Methodist Church’s new social networking site that debuts today. (Link not up yet) It makes sense. What’s a more natural social…

Bad Science and the risk of false positives

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 10

Just bookmarked this blog, Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre of the Guardian. In this post, he talks about how a tests that make only one mistake in 10,000 are very…

Blogging: Personalized search-engine optimization

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 14

Debbie Weil reads in the Washington Post about how AOL’s Ted Leonsis starting blogging. We didn’t like the hodgepodge on Google when he googled his name. So he built his…

Election Day as seen from Afghanistan

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 09

I went to Military.com to see how soldiers, sailors and Marines view the changes in Congress and the Pentagon. It’s a great site, with all kinds of blogs and columns…

Battling blog fatigue: Sphere points to new blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 01

I was visiting the blog search start-up Sphere yesterday. They have a headquarters in San Francisco’s Presidio. The Golden Gate Bridge is right out the window. I was telling Tony…

Props on Abigail Johnson’s New Blog

Posted by: Heather Green on May 28

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…

Barbaro’s Blog

Posted by: Heather Green on May 24

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.

Personal finance blogger’s advice: careful with generics

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 28

A group of young financial bloggers open their portfolios to the world—and give sage advice on when to buy generics, and when to hold back

When I do a book blog, should I stay on Blogspotting?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 19

Stephen Baker goes on book leave—and wonders whether to keep blogging on Blogspotting or to move to a book blog—or both

Disagreement over bust within Blogspotting

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 28

Stephen Baker debates his colleague Heather Green about a coming Internet bust.

Best of blogs provides good RSS fodder

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 02

KBCafe list of best blogs provides lots of good fodder for RSS feeds

Perfomancing launches forums

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 19

Performancing launches online forums for bloggers.

More Apple sites? Try SmashMyiPod

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 03

SmashMyiPod is a high-tech offshoot of the classic snuff flick

BusinessWeek unveils new blog: Byte of the Apple

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 02

BusinessWeek launches a new blog about Apple, Byte of the Apple

A Baseball Blogger’s Tale

Posted by: Heather Green on November 01

If you missed it, great first person story at the WSJ about how a tech columnist became a sports blogging addict—blogging about the Mets. (My condolences!)

Software blog tells of engineer shortage in India

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 19

A software recruiter in India blogs about the travails of finding good programmers in an overheated market.

Jon Fine blasts “Weakend” Journal on new BW blog

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 12

BW’s Jon Fine launches a new blog, Fine on Media, and pans the Weekend Wall Street Journal

Mission complete: A blog celebrates baseball firing

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 11

A Web site dedicated to getting a baseball executive fired holds a rousing celebration.

Search Leonardo’s notebooks

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 07

Browsing Leonardo’s notebooks on asksam

New blogger Blodget touts Google

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 05

Henry Blodget has a new blog, but there’s little new in his idea that Google will prevail over Microsoft

BW’s Nussbaum launches design and innnovation blog

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 26

BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum compares blogs to unions in his new blog, NussbaumOnDesign

How-to Site for Community Journalism

Posted by: Heather Green on September 14

J-Learning launched this week, digital handbook and how to for people interested in getting involved in citizens journalism and online community news.

Juicy Fruit What?

Posted by: Heather Green on September 13

Wow, this Juicy Fruit blog is so bad, I could hardly tear myself away from it. Usually I wouldn’t bother blogging about this, but it’s like a trainwreck….

Roger Staubach CEO Blogger?

Posted by: Heather Green on September 13

Will the very unbloglike approach that the former Dallas Cowboy quarterback and now CEO work?

Tulane Sets up Blog

Posted by: Heather Green on September 13

Tulane sets up a blog.

HuffingtonPost facing a dilemma: Too many comments

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 08

The HuffingtonPost has a backlog of thousands of reader comments not yet posted on the blogs

One more interview with Arianna Huffington

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 07

Looking for questions to ask Arianna Huffington and Jeff Jarvis

OJR and Katrina

Posted by: Heather Green on September 02

OJR has a wiki with a good list of links on Katrina. Metroblogging New Orleans has some good links too. (Via Trust but Verify) UPDATE: From comments, here’s the I’m…

Hurricane blog asks for open-source mapping

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 01

Hurricane blog is looking for a cartographer to gather info and put together a map of the devastation

Tulane and the Hurricane

Posted by: Heather Green on August 31

In a remarkable example of using a blog for crises management—Tulane’s Web site is now a blog.

BlogDay

Posted by: Heather Green on August 31

Today is BlogDay, a celebration of new or newish blogs. Complete with Blogspotting’s picks.

Disaster blog to separate hurricane fact from fiction

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 30

Know what’s going on in the disaster zone? Send info to this new blog.

Hurricane blog

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 29

Points to a weather blog for hurricane coverage

Joel Achenbach hosts legions of squatters

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 22

After Joel Achenbach set up his blog, a vast community of commenters moved in and made it their own.

New design blog starts off with folding napkins

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 17

A new blog from simplehuman starts off with every day design, including the art of folding napkins

The Business Experiment: open-source startup

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 15

The Business Experiment, an online lab for startups, already has more than 700 members.

Getting out of the Groove

Posted by: Heather Green on August 10

Taking a lesson from Anil Dash and looking for new blogs to stretch your thinking.

Out-of-the-way blogs, part II

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 08

If the secret to creative thinking is breaking away from routines, a tour of these off-subject blogs might spark a few ideas.

Microsoft’s new bloggers battle anonymity

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 08

Microsoft launches new blogs, but the bloggers’ personalities are hidden by the Microsoft brand.

Let’s hear it for irrelevant blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 04

Blogspotting is on the lookout for great blogs that have absolutely nothing to do with what we spend most of our time thinking about: business, the media and technology.

Hey Mark Cuban: Create a different A list

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 02

A call to Mark Cuban to establish a new blog A-list with the Icerocket search engine.

More Bloggers Needed

Posted by: Heather Green on July 26

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.

Happy News looking for citizen journalists

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 22

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

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

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…

On the lookout for small business blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 15

Stephen Baker is looking for small business blogs.

New BW blog probes housing deals and steals

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 07

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

French food blogger creates magic in New York

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 05

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

Will citizen journalists cover City Hall?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 05

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

How to appeal to non-bloggers? Think virus wikis

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 02

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

Customers, grab your soap boxes

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 07

Problogger says businesses should let customers post on their blogs.

Find David Koch: Looking for help

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 03

A call for help from the family of an American, David Koch, missing near Vancouver since May 25

The Business of Blogging

Posted by: Heather Green on June 02

Looking at the business of blog networks and the Music Blog Network .

The Importance of Taglines

Posted by: Heather Green on May 31

On the taglines experiment at Vaspers the Grate and some of out blogspotting nonstarter taglines.

Dan Gillmor’s new site—comment registration

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 14

A link to Dan Gillmor’s new site, and a question to readers about registering vs. screened comments

BW’s Mandel has new econ blog

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 11

BusinessWeek’s Michael Mandel has a new blog, Economics Unbound

Celebrities pile in to blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 07

Arianna Huffington’s new blog will usher more celebrities into the blog world. But they won’t dominate blogs the way they do TV.

New religion blog gets variety of Google ads

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 02

A new religion blog draws ad promoting sexy singles.