http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/ Where the worlds of business, media and blogs collide 2007-12-10T10:55:59-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/12/international_c.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting When I took off for foreign countries in the '70s and '80s, I said good-bye and knew that I would not hear my family's voices til my return--again unless somebody died. Foreign phone calls used to be an extravagance, something... mobile stephen_baker 2007-12-10T10:55:59-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/12/wifi_on_planes-.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting The Internet is all agog about airline companies putting Wi-Fi on planes. But I rather feel a bit of sadness for that enforced downtime you have to take now, once the doors are locked and you're up in the air.... heather_green 2007-12-07T11:58:46-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/12/post_8.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting A little battle over an internal IBM blog post is taking place on comments to an old IBM "second life" post of mine. It involves IBM's Ian Hughes, a blogger and a metaverse evangelist at the company. He also blogs... Inside Companies stephen_baker 2007-12-07T07:21:49-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/12/when_to_talk_ba.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Media Guerrilla has a great post called Online Response Tactics 101 that gives advice to companies about when to talk back to someone who is writing online. Everyone runs into this question, I think. I know we do, when people... heather_green 2007-12-05T11:20:32-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/12/spam_from_spamm.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting And I guess spam does work, at least at one level, if it pays off in this blog post. I just got an e-mail from Endai Worldwide, an online marketing company that carries out ad and e-mail campaigns. They've done... spam and other abuses stephen_baker 2007-12-04T15:49:30-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/12/cat_teeth_searc.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Do cats have molars? A hunt for the answer goes away from the animal in question and straight to the computer. search stephen_baker 2007-12-04T07:46:24-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/12/hey_if_the_alar.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting This is what I'm getting at Yahoo: Sorry for the holdup. Looks like a temporary glitch in our network has part of Yahoo! mail down, so you're briefly without service. Rest assured the alarms are blaring in the basement and... search stephen_baker 2007-12-03T11:13:32-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/11/rewriting_our_o.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Asks for suggestions on turning our 2005 blogging cover into a Wiki BusinessWeek stephen_baker 2007-11-30T10:30:12-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/11/will_openid_rea.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting This is a question I am hoping to get your input on. I would love to hear what you think about the technology and what you think it will take for it to be a broad success. I have only... comments heather_green 2007-11-30T10:30:07-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/11/my_letter_to_th.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting It felt funny writing a letter to the editor, which is such a careful and stilted process, when it's so much easier to blog. But I try not to blog much about politics. So after reading a David Brooks column... mainstream media stephen_baker 2007-11-28T10:56:16-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/11/web_30_loosenin.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Valeria Maltoni has a nice big link-laden post on Web 3.0. (a subject that has generated a lot of conversation here.) She talks about a Web that is smaller, not larger, and targeted to our interests, friendships and needs. This... society stephen_baker 2007-11-27T10:50:36-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/11/ingram_business_1.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Mathew Ingram complains that BusinessWeek simplifies and slams User Generated Content. He writes: The thing that really bugs me about the BusinessWeek article is that there’s this false dichotomy between high-quality professional content and low-quality UGC crap. It’s not that... BusinessWeek stephen_baker 2007-11-26T10:50:34-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/11/print-only_blog.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Joel Achenbach, discussing the fading fortunes of the San Jose Mercury-News, comes up with a new idea: Print-only blogs. Here, let him explain it: These would be blogs, columns and stories that would not be put on the Web at... mainstream media stephen_baker 2007-11-20T13:03:17-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/11/cmu_algorithm_p.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Just got a release from Carnegie Mellon about a new algorithm that rates the blogs we should read "to be most up to date." Interestingly, if we have only time to read 100 blogs, Instapundit ranks first. (Since it's an... research stephen_baker 2007-11-19T11:51:20-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/11/personalization.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting David Weinberger and danah boyd complain about stupid security questions. Most of the security programs, it seems to me, assume that the person hacking your data doesn't know you. This may be true most of the time. But a vengeful... spam and other abuses stephen_baker 2007-11-19T11:30:48-05:00