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).
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.mont...rconcierges.com
My Blogs:
http://sergethe...rge.typepad.com
http://creative...ess.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)
could turn this blog into a resource for finding web2.0 companies With each proifle that has real information behind