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Ever see BW.com EIC John Byrne sketch out his edit strategy on a whiteboard?
SWMS Reporter's Notebook: Ohlhorst, TechWeb, BusinessWeek
Monday, August 17, 2009
Former CMP and Ziff Davis Media editor Frank Ohlhorst is preparing to launch Channel Tech Center, a new edit-driven site serving resellers.
BusinessWeek's latest reader-editor collaboration, "The Case for Optimism," published late last week, offers less user-generated content -- much less -- than BW's 2008 masterpiece [email protected].
Much is riding on Time Inc.'s Fortune Brainstorm: Tech, which kicks off today in Pasadena, CA.
Today we formally introduce SWMSTweet, our private Twitter channel.
SWMS Analysis: BusinessWeek Up for Sale
Monday, July 13, 2009
Bloomberg reports today that BusinessWeek is for sale.
BW's Stephen Baker posted a brief item in his blog, which, curiously, had not drawn a single reader comment as of 12:55p EDT. BW editor-in-chief John A. Byrne declined an SWMS invitation to comment.
Bloomberg reports today that BusinessWeek is for sale.
SWMS Coverage Analysis: Google Chrome
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Who did the best job of covering today's breaking news about Google Chrome becoming a netbook operating system?
For what it's worth, Ars Technica broke the story, shortly before Google itself announced the news in a company blog.
More revealing are the editorial approaches, categorized below:
Ever wonder if mainstream media outlets operate with two sets of editorial standards -- a stringent one for articles and a looser one for blog posts?
Don't drop your Factiva subscription just yet. Google News's byline search capability -- announced last week -- often yielded faulty results and was frustrating to use during SWMS testing.
