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BusinessWeek Rolls Out Blogspotting.net

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the even-the-pros-are-doing-it dept.

hackajar wrote in to mention a development on BusinessWeek. Their weeklong discussion about blogs and blogging in business has culminated in a new website: Blogspotting.net. From the site: "Before anyone asks, we didn't pick the name because we have an urge to speak in Scottish brogue or fall headlong into the seamy side of questionable drug usage. It seemed to fit what we intend to do with this blog--track the phenomenon of how media, business, and blogs meet head on." They appear to be using Movable Type.

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  1. True Democracy by superpulpsicle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want a true democracy, it has to begin with people's rights to say whatever they want. While US has the "freedom of speech", let's face it... the poor, minority and steretyped always struggle with this freedom.

    Where Blogs come in HUGE is... you don't really know if the person doing the speaking is rich or poor. The status can be a complete mystery. That's true democracy.

  2. Uh oh... Business Week by slagheap · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This must be one of those press hits.
    Slagheap

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  3. Train...er.. blogspotting? by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, Dont know the future of blogging, but the nature of it surely resembles something like what Rent-boy Renton describes : "I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post. That's for sure. I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. A need like nothing else I've ever known will soon take hold of me. It's on its way. " and KABOOM! You start blogging!

  4. somewhat ironic of BusinessWeek by MobyTurbo · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's somewhat ironic that BusinessWeek is rolling out a blogging service after Paul Graham's new article originally claimed that BusinessWeek ran an article on http://del.icio.us/ due to PR money gotten from a VC. Therefore Bloggers for that, among other reasons, are superior to traditional media, according to Paul Graham.

    (Of course, Paul Graham retracted this claim when BusinessWeek informed him today the article was sponteneous, uninfluenced by a PR firm; but I'm sure BusinessWeek had his article foremost in their thoughts when they announced their new blogging site.)

  5. Blog is Beautiful by Sundroid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slashdotters who frown upon the blogging phenomenon should realize that Slashdot is considered a blog and tracked by websites like Daypop (at http://www.daypop.com/blogrank/), so if you're merrily whipping these comments out, you are considered a blogger as well, only you're doing it on a community blog.

    Blogspotting sounds hip, but it's a shock (yeah, falling-off-the-chair shock) to see the photos of these two Businessweek bloggers who look like they were sent straight from Hollywood Central Casting for "corporate cubicle type"; I mean, put on some Goth makeup or something.

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  6. How to tell that Blogging is really over by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2, Insightful

    when a major business magazine writes an article on how it's such an important trend.

    Happened with Sigma-5 (or whatever the lame GE methodology was), happened with dot coms, now it's blogging.

    Well, it was fun while it lasted.

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