I’ve launched a new companion blog to TechCrunch called CrunchNotes. I wrote a longish introductory post describing exactly why it exists (and why TechCrunch exists), but here’s the essence:
So, why am I starting CrunchNotes? The main reason is that I find that sometimes, I want to talk about more than just new companies and products. Sometimes I have something to say about what’s going on in the blogosphere or the world. Sometimes I want to link to something interesting another blogger has written, but which has nothing to do with new companies. I found that doing that on TechCrunch tends to dilute the core value of that blog.
Yeah, I just quoted myself. Sorry. It won’t happen again.
If you are interested in reading CrunchNotes, here’s the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/crunchnotes.
Thanks to Fred Oliveira, who designed CrunchNotes (and TechCrunch).
Comments
First to comment! Looking forward to your thoughts in addition to company reviews.
I’m the second subscriber in Bloglines! Great idea - sometimes sticking to a format can be restrictive, so it’s good to branch out.
By the way, I hope you’re going to publish full feeds - right now it just displays the first few sentences.
You’re 5 errors away from valid HTML, and I really think you should not be using orange XML buttons on a green background, as they may be hard to distinguish for someone with a colour deficiency. Plus those are opponent colours and are a bit garish.
Thanks Jeff and Pete. We’ll get the feeds fixed of course. Joe, thanks for the input. It’ll evolve.
Michael
I currently write 2 blogs.
The most read (started in March 05) is ‘Serge the Concierge’ where I write mostly on subjects related to my Concierges & Errands business (food, wine, travel, consumers…)
The other, ‘Creative Business’, has been an extension of my business networking.
I have thought of combining them but so far have not because they cover mostly different topics.
I read your notes as well on the ‘design template’ and good thinking on the same topic on ‘A List Apart’.
Serge
http://www.montclairconcierges.com
My Blogs:
http://sergetheconcierge.typepad.com
http://creativebusiness.typepad.com
Have you thought about making a wiki or another way to organize all of your posts better?
That way people can find web2.0 companies that you have profiled.
I understand you do have the posts organized into categories, but that only goes so far. TechCrunch has done so much work already, just a little more to get it organized could turn this blog into a resource for finding web2.0 companies With each proifle that has real information behind each company (not just an excerpt from the web2’s .com site)
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