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July 30, 2003 | Comments: (0)

Welcome to Tech Watch

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Bloggers love to talk about how this RSS-empowered medium is changing journalism forever. What's already clear to me is that blogs and 'traditional' news journalism are ideal partners for delivering, aggregating and analyzing news.
For example, I'm subscribed to around 50 RSS feeds that deliver content to my news aggregator on a daily basis. What's happening here is that you quickly notice patterns where breaking news around the web feeds blog discussions, and vice versa. So in that context, Tech Watch is a natural fit for InfoWorld's news team. Expect to see us blog from events like trade shows, and link to enterprise IT news around the web with our spin. Some of us might even try to be funny (but don't hold your breath).

So what makes Tech Watch unique?

1. Every InfoWorld news reporter has been issued a username and password for posting to this site.

2. Some news stories will get blogged, others will run in the news section. If we develop a formula for exactly how those decisions are made I'll let you know.

3. We hope Tech Watch will become a rich aggregator of enterprise IT news - there is clearly demand for one-stop news-shopping for those without an RSS news reader.

4. The copy desk is cut out of the loop. Goodbye production latency, and hello group editing!

5. I get to update and edit this list whenever I want, and that's ok.

Posted by Mark Jones on July 30, 2003 02:40 PM

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