Friday, May 31, 2013

Some business links

I was researching terminology for a translation and hit a couple of links. Infoentrepreneurs.com is apparently the Quebecois mirror of a UK topic database about small business concepts.  And then Wifcon.com is a set of articles about American federal procurement for contractors.

This kind of stuff - and probably the contents of any reasonable business course (wasn't there a reading list for a "virtual MBA" I saw a couple of years ago?) - are grist for the mill for a semantic model of small business, which is what I'm zeroing in on here.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Content organization technique

Here's a good notion for writing long-form journalism: start with a stub article, then keep expanding it with additional sections, always back-linking to the longer story. FastCoLabs is trying this under the rubric of "slow live blogging", which is a pretty entertaining way of putting it.  And I like it.  There are a lot of things that just work better this way, like my 2008 botnet spam project for example.