Business First of Columbus — Debit nation:
As debit cards’ use grows, banks try rewards, fees to make the most of their use
Dallas Business Journal —
Power lunch making a comeback: Restaurateurs say business execs return to doing deals over a meal
Denver Business Journal — Complaints about debt collectors rise
Nashville Businiess Journal — Putt-Putt looks to Nashville in franchise expansion effort
Puget Sound Business Journal — Facing the music: Starbucks slows the tempo on CD plans
Useit.com: Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design “Simple, unobtrusive designs that support users are successful because they abide by the Web’s nature — and they make people feel good.”
C|Net: Spam volume keeps rising. “Spam has accounted for 38 percent of the 31 billion e-mails sent each day in North America in 2004, up from 24 percent in 2002, the market researcher said.”
Online Journalism Reviews: Why Beat Reporters Could Be News Sites’ Greatest Secret Weapon. “(O)n the Web, we’ve long realized the value of FAQs, primers and timelines. They work well in newspapers, but they perform even better on the Web, where they can be enhanced with images, be made multi-dimensional with links, can be expanded, collapsed and augmented by readers and — most importantly — where they don’t get thrown in the recycling bin after one short day of life.”
Wired News: RSS Attracts Really Serious Money. This is an interesting counterpoint to a discussion still going at Poynter Online’s Online-News discussion list about the business potentional of RSS feeds. You can scan the recent messages on Poynter about RSS feeds through this link and searching “RSS”.
RSS feeds lets people monitor a lot of news without going through as many hoops, including being exposed to the ads that fund the news operations. It changes the business model that many news publishers depend upon.
Bizjournals: Where have the jobs gone?
Business First of Buffalo: Health plans for retirees face big cuts
The Business Journal (Minneapolis/St. Paul): Web savvy: Local nonprofits turn to the Internet and e-mail for a new spin on fund raising — results are mixed
St. Louis Business Journal: Psychic city: Levin’s influence goes beyond RCGA
The Times of India: Now, outsourcing of media, publishing work
Bizjournals now offers RSS feeds for its daily updates and industry journals.
Debbie Weil of debbie’s blog was recently featured in a Washington Post article about business blogs, such as her own business, a public relations agency. I also read her pieces about online copywriting and web content
A couple of good entries from debbies blog include: Blogging your expertise and Seth Godin live… and interrupted.
NY Times: Safety Gap Grows Wider Between S.U.V.’s and Cars. My dislike of SUVs is getting more personal. The last two accidents that sent our cars to the body shop were from SUV drivers backing up into us. One even ignored the beeping telling the driver there’s something behind the car.