Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Jason Calacanis launches Weblogs, Inc


Jason Calacanis, founder of Silicon Alley Reporter and Venture Reporter magazines, launched his new venture this morning. Weblogs, Inc is sort of a profit-based micropublishing system for niche, business-to-business blogs. Here's a snip from the company's manifesto.
Weblogs, Inc. is a B2B Web site dedicated to creating niche Weblogs (a.k.a. blogs) across niche industries in which user participation is an essential component of the resulting product. Weblogs, Inc. is creating a new layer on top of the traditional business-to-business media that:

* saves professionals the time associated with reading dozens of B2B publications by providing a non-stop, top-level summary of the news;
* provides analytical tools that allow users the ability to sort and search stories by subtopics inside B2B niches;
* gives users the ability to participate by engaging in discussions, ranking stories and by submitting their own “blogs” (i.e., pointers and summaries of stories on other sites); and
* promotes fairness and truth in reporting by acting as a public forum where industry professionals can participate.

Link (Disclaimer: I'm a former employee of the publishing company behind Silicon Alley Reporter/Venture Reporter/etc. )



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