Revolving doors: One of the staples of trade publishing is the devotion of way too much editorial energy and space to tracking the comings and goings of industry folk. It even happens in the magazine trades covering magazines. Perhaps if I were a better “vendor” I would appreciate the service such coverage supplies, but my career-long avoidance of those pages in trade publications is probably why I never blog personnel news unless this blogger is a personal or professional friend of the bloggee.

Art Linkless: This weblog’s old URL had enough incoming links to rank 50,000 blogs higher on Technorati than this one (but who’s counting?) so this weblog is grateful to learn that the old address will redirect to the new one at some point, possibly as soon as this week. (And please update your blogroll and RSS feed with the new-and-improved rexblog info.)

Update: It worked.

Rip roaring and right: Rafat Ali is at his best when he “rips apart” flawed business models (his term, not mine) as he does with this assesment of the “business search engine” find.com.

Quote:

The idea is to combine open-web based results along with premium content results. Combining these works well in theory, but in practice, it is a minefield to implement. And if their idea of specialization is “Let’s launch business search engine”, they only need to look back a few years and ask the likes of Business.com, AllBusiness.com, Alacra’s defunct PortalB and others littered all over the landscape. A business search engine is not a niche…

A minefield, indeed.

Two-bit gimmick: The NY Times devotes lots of space (surely you’ve registered) covering InTouch “25¢ a copy” promotion this week. This weblog is glad to see that it only cost a quarter to “buy that kind of coverage.”

Quote:

“But promotion costs money and after the kind of growth that we have had, we thought it was important to say thank you to people.” (Hubert Boehle, president and chief executive of Bauer Publishing USA)

From the way reporter David Carr wrote that sentence, it appears Mr. Boehle wanted to say thank you to people. However, capitalized another way, he could have wanted to say thank you to People.

Blogging week: Time Magazine last week, now Business Week does a story on blogging in business. I hope this kind of coverage isn’t shark jumping.