Stephen Baker of BusinessWeek asks in their new technology blog :

Dinner last night in New York with folks from a big Internet ad agency. They told me about a problem. A report just came out on a blog that they say distorted their company position. If it had come out on a newspaper or magazine, Read More...

Valdis Krebs also referred me to a map of the Cleveland blogosphere on his site, from last week’s meeting on Blogging for Business in Cleveland. What you can see here is that blogs show similar sorts of social network patterns as traditional social network analysis like the Simpsons social network.

I just spoke with Valdis Krebs, who mentioned that he had uploaded a social network analysis of the Simpsons on his site.

You may like Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit. I have already reset my browser home page to the page mentioned in the excerpt below:

One major behavior that triggers a work interruption is “going online.” The Internet is a vast repository of Time Wasters, and if you’re like me, the activity that Read More...

I recently had a conversation with Tim DeMello, Founder and CEO of the recently-launched Ziggs. We are adding this profile of Ziggs to our Social Networking Site Guide.
Charlene Li weighed in with some thoughtful comments on Ziggs, and Recruiting.com, Joe Nowak, and WisBlawg have all also written about Ziggs, so I thought Read More...

I really enjoyed reading The Tyranny of Email. It has very practical advice on how to use email effectively.
There is one error in it; the author bases a small portion of the document on the widely repeated but in fact highly misleading observation that “38% of communication is inflection and tone of Read More...

You may be interested in Venturewiki, which I believe just launched a few weeks ago. This is the first VC-focused use of a wiki that I’ve seen. The prolific Ross Mayfield is a contributor, among others.
Via Tony Christopher via Cynthia Typaldos via WebCommunities.

Alan Brody, founder of iBreakfast, reports on their recent event with Craig Newmark (posted by permission).
A Community of Yankees in the Court of King Craig
Remember the saying, “Freedom of the Press belongs to those who own them?” Well guess what, the people now own them, at least if you think of the Internet as a Read More...

I enjoyed having dinner last week with Marc Goldmann, a former neighbor and CEO of SawYouAtSinai. We are adding this profile of SawYouAtSinai to our Social Networking Site Guide.
I agree with David Evans at Corante’s Online Dating service who has written on the importance of building reputation management into online Read More...

The what, why, and how of business blogging, by business blog expert, DEBBIE WEIL. Normally $29, ChangeThis brings you the entire report for free until January 25th.
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Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging