Could it be that we misread the phenomenon, and that blogs won't even change business? It hurts to admit it, but Henry Copeland mounts an uncomfortably convincing case that a BW cover story can be a curse. We make calls. Sometimes they're ill-timed, sometimes flat out wrong BusinessWeek cover curse?
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Flikr
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As Web applications become better understood and the cost of service drops, what the consumer gets is more for their money or indeed, more for nothing. Just look at Google's Gmail for example (see editorial links below) which upped the bar for Web-based e-mail features and gigabyte storage
• Flikr looks to up the bar for online photo sharing services [Bloggers like to demonize the MSM (that's Mainstream Media), but it is increasingly hard to think of the largest news blogs as being outside the mainstream Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha (NYT Lectures us on blogger ... The Latest Rumbling in the Blogosphere: Questions About Ethics ; Top Bloggers ]
• · Some evil force is causing people to stop reading newspapers Remember: You Can't Swat a Fly With a Computer ; My weblog is my place of business Is your blog your office? Or a quantifiable marketing tool?
• · · The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link Google Web Accelerator: Hey, not so fast - an alert for web app designers ; Crikey! Grokker! A New Way To Search in Circles
• · · · Diversity of Winner takes it all: Why you should nominate a blogher|blogshero to the OpenMedia 100 ; AO Technorati 100 ; An investigation over the sourcing and accuracy of news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading Internet news site concluded that the existence of dozens of people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed. Online journalists under the scanner
• · · · · The essence of blogging has been the one-man band, the big mouth in the basement, the pajama-clad pontificator taking on the media establishment The stars come out for Arianna Huffington's blog ; Greek-born socialite and political chameleon Arianna Huffington slapped a new website down on the virtual doorstep - dishing political pith from celebrity pals. When celebrities blog!
• · · · · · Nick Denton: A Counterrevolutionary In Our Midst ; Google Gathers Great Movie Reviews...