http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/ Read the latest technolocical advances in society and technology. Learn about the effects of technology on society and stay updated on corporate social media. en-us Copyright 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Tue, 13 May 2008 10:38:35 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss bwwebmaster@businessweek.com 10 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 for an article today. It's an amazing service that knits... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/worldwide_teles.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/worldwide_teles.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Tue, 13 May 2008 10:38:35 -0500 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 revenues... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/this_weeks_digi_5.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/this_weeks_digi_5.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Mon, 12 May 2008 10:32:10 -0500 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 know exactly what to build. Get a lot of reporting,... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/sorting_through.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/sorting_through.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Twitter Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:44 -0500 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 Godin's book, The Dip. Funny, I'm seeing the other side:... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/rubel_wrong_on.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/rubel_wrong_on.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting society Fri, 09 May 2008 10:17:46 -0500 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 ask for information. A sentence that simply documents a point... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/twitter_story_o.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/twitter_story_o.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Twitter Thu, 08 May 2008 15:08:52 -0500 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 to write the first 140 or so characters of a... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/twittering_a_st.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/twittering_a_st.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Twitter Thu, 08 May 2008 10:31:50 -0500 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 a good blogger, came into my office yesterday and said,... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/looking_for_blo_1.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/looking_for_blo_1.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting BusinessWeek Wed, 07 May 2008 07:33:58 -0500 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 grown from 300 to 29,000 users worldwide since its launch... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/ibms_delicious.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/ibms_delicious.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Inside Companies Tue, 06 May 2008 11:01:48 -0500 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 BW cover story about workers pushing Apple into the corporation,... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/this_weeks_digi_4.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/this_weeks_digi_4.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Mon, 05 May 2008 09:25:36 -0500 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 caught my attention. It's from Albert Maruggi. Hell, everyone is... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/the_coming_batt.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/the_coming_batt.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Jobs Thu, 01 May 2008 14:34:50 -0500 The growing meaningless of the word friend--and the need for a new taxonomy for relationships in the networked world. http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/friends_what_ar.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/friends_what_ar.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting society Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:53:36 -0500 For the revision of our blog cover story that we're doing for the magazine, we've been rounding up updates of how businesses are using social media. But a response to Steve's questions yesterday makes me realize we never asked if... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/creative_busine.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/creative_busine.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Twitter Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:51:21 -0500 Remember that revision of the 2005 blog cover we were working on? We're still at work on it, believe it or not, and we need predictions. So here are some questions: How will social networks and other new communications tools... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/how_will_social.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/how_will_social.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting blog cover revision Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:52:10 -0500 I had a four-hour delay at O'Hare a few weeks ago, and I picked up the Odyssey. I've been reading it on and off ever since. As I write, Odysseus is back in Ithaca, about to make life miserable for... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/twitter_and_the.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/twitter_and_the.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Twitter Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:37:15 -0500 All you sci-fi wannabes might consider sending short stories to Burst Fiction. (ex Chris Webb) And I mean short. 1000 characters is only 7 Twitters. Authors are going to have to innovate madly with words to satisfy the constraints of... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/burst_fiction_w.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/04/burst_fiction_w.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Books Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:12:25 -0500