http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/ Read the latest technological 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. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:40:49 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss bwwebmaster@businessweek.com 10 So... what does it means when I look in my junkmail and see an email from my CEO? Does it mean that the junk filter is monitoring my performance, and that I'm not opening e-mails from CEOs? Or maybe just... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/07/in_a_data-drive.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/07/in_a_data-drive.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Numerati Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:40:49 -0500 After I got back from Paris, I couldn't stop talking about how much I LOVE Velib', the low-cost municipal bike system in Paris. (This is definitely off topic, but I see Fred Wilson also has fallen in love and it... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/07/velib_great_but.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/07/velib_great_but.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:31:56 -0500 Sandia National Lab chief technology officer Richard Stulen just visited. A few highlights: * Network analysts at Sandia studied the patterns of the e-mails in the last months of Enron Corp. They located a betting pool within the company. (Makes... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/07/sandia_labs_on.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/07/sandia_labs_on.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting research Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:11:44 -0500 Just getting around to reading Chris Anderson's End of Science story in Wired. It's certainly provocative and worth reading, as are posts arguing his thesis, by Matthew Hurst and John Timmer. One argument is whether mathematicians and computer scientists burrowing... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/data_end_of_sci.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/data_end_of_sci.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting research Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:31:53 -0500 We decode RIM's earnings and discusses the promise of wind power and Yahoo's reorganization.... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/this_weeks_digi_9.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/this_weeks_digi_9.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:28:03 -0500 I just wrote a piece on Twitter, its maddening crashes and the excitement of investors, including Jeff Bezos, to pour money into it. I guess they figure that with enough money, any company can build reliable infrastructure. But precious few... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/twitter_communi.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/twitter_communi.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Twitter Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:11:31 -0500 I am sorry I missed Douglas Rushkoff at the Personal Democracy Forum. But luckily on his blog, he gave a little synopsis of what he was going to say, namely: democracy as we know it was built around the notion... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/is_the_collecti.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/is_the_collecti.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:09:41 -0500 I was inspired to see epredator's resume in a tag cloud. It's not only a fun exercise, but it provides a graphic way of communicating our skills and experience. Will this be more valuable so that we can be read... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/whats_a_resume.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/whats_a_resume.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting skills Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:48:51 -0500 On the latest Digital Dish(with special guest Steve Baker), we talk about the exodus at Yahoo, the Associated Press’ ham-handed warnings to bloggers, and Firefox’s record-breaking download day... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/this_weeks_digi_8.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/this_weeks_digi_8.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:19:47 -0500 I know this isn't a car blog, but this release from Carnegie Mellon about driverless cars has me thinking ahead. We're horrible drivers. 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Well, here's the un-embargoed stuff: LinkedIn has 23 million users, with 1.2 million new ones... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/linkedin_a_talk.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/linkedin_a_talk.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting social networks Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:25:49 -0500 Just got this email: "A new study from the University of Miami and USC that finds that, on average, a bad product review by The Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg causes a firm's stock price to fall 5% right after... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/walt_mossberg_r.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/walt_mossberg_r.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting mainstream media Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:41:36 -0500 Reading about MySpace's redesign and how it's part of the social network's push to make more money got me to thinking about how so many of the social media companies' revenues aren't living up to their commercial expectations. Social networks,... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/why_is_making_m.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/why_is_making_m.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:05:04 -0500 Catherine Holahan (who sits close enough to hear my fingers typing) has noticed a certain similarity in the goodbye e-mails flowing out of Yahoo--and has assembled a farewell memo template. For those who enjoy Mad Libs, here's a sampling: In... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/the_yahoo_resig.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/06/the_yahoo_resig.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting BusinessWeek Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:49:11 -0500 We have been trying to get the show up on Fridays, rather than Saturdays since, really, it makes more sense. Our editing folks are now pulling it off! 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