Given that Alacra licenses content from about 50 publishers, I get a bunch of magazines, newsletters and email newsletters very month. I don't get time to read many of them, but I do flip through them quickly. The current edition of Corporate Board Member magazine (a bi-monthly), from the publishers of the The Directors Database, has an article titled Catching Up (and Up and Up and Up) with the Technology Bloggers. It starts like this:
It’s amazing that any code or term sheets get written or any products shipped, considering how much time Silicon Valley denizens and their brothers and sisters around the U.S. devote to reading, writing, and discussing blogs. In the technology industry, the temptation is to think there are more blogs than workers, given the number of people who have two or three of the online diary-cum-communication tools going simultaneously.
The article goes on to mention venture capitalist Brad Feld and Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of SUN (NSDQ:JAVA) and highlights a handful well-known blogs the editors thought corporate board members should know about, including: BoingBoing, Techcrunch, Guy Kawasaki, Silicon Alley Insider and GigaOm. They did a good job selecting high quality blogs.
At the back of the book there's another piece: Craigslist, The One Thing You Won't Find For Sale On Craigslist.org. Here's an excerpt:
Meet Jim Buckmaster, 45, CEO of privately held Craigslist, the world’s No. 1 source of classified ads. Whether you’re shopping for a new job, a used car, a computer, an apartment to rent or a house to buy, Springsteen tickets, even a last-minute date (Craigslist’s “casual encounters” is an active category), you can find it among the 30 million ads placed by Craigslist users every month. Some 26.6 million American adults—that’s one in nine, and we do hope they’re adults because “casual encounters” can get pretty raunchy—visited the site in January, according to the digital-metrics gatherer ComScore. And although at 13 years old Craigslist is practically a senior citizen in Internet time, its audience is still growing at a sprightly rate: 2007 traffic was up 74% over 2006.
The magazine is well-written and well-produced and no doubt serves its readers well. It's hard to believe, though, that there's a population of very senior business people who don't know this stuff already.
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