The Most Important Building Projects for the United States
The Obama government plans massive stimulus spending. What are the best projects? Your ideas will run in a BusinessWeek story in January.
Twenty-three years ago, when I was a general assignment reporter at a soon-to-be defunct paper, the El Paso Herald-Post, I got a fabulous job offer. BusinessWeek asked me to open a bureau in Mexico City. If you had asked me at that juncture what a board of directors was for, or to distinguish between revenue and earnings, I would have been stumped. I had never covered business before (unless you count oil in Venezuela), and I didn't know much about it. But BusinessWeek, I soon learned, was chock full of knowledgeable, friendly and forgiving folks who helped people like me learn on the job.
My career at BusinessWeek, which wraps up tomorrow, was an education. I'd start ignorant, and then learn on the job from sources and colleagues. That's the great privilege of journalism, and BusinessWeek was the best place imaginable for it. When I was sent from Pittsburgh to Paris to cover technology in 1998, I knew far more about blast furnaces than semiconductors. When I came back to New York four years later as acting technology editor, I'd never worked as an editor or covered technology in the United States. People helped, and picked me up.
Many of those people are already scattered, and dozens more are leaving with me. I'd say I'll miss them, but I plan to stay with them on the networks. Why would I ever venture out alone when I have the greatest colleagues? They're the treasure of my career, and to forgo them at this point would be insane.
And so I move on. This is my last post at Blogspotting.net. A big thanks to Heather for the great company on this ride, and to all of you for your intelligence, feedback and friendship. We'll stay in touch, I hope, at TheNumerati.net, and on your blogs and Twitter feeds. (I'm @stevebaker.)
I still haven't figured out how to store the archives of Blogspotting. But I plan to write an email to the incoming editor in chief of BW, Josh Tyrangiel, asking him please not to pull the plug.
I came across a pumped-up email system called Pixetell that could help with a problem I've been having. Of late, I've been writing laborious click-by-click instructions to explain to people on a Ning network how to change their profiles. Sometimes the written word is a round-about way of communicating.
With Pixetell, it would be easier. You describe or explain whatever you want in your voice as you move the cursor around and click. And then it all goes in an email. The person receiving it might as well be looking over your shoulder. Here's a video demo featuring my colleague Arik Hesseldahl.
The technology looks useful. It would be great for help desks. Not sure at this point if the rest of us would shell out $9 or $19 a month to be able to generate these messages. (Everyone can receive them, but for now, subscribers have to have Windows machines.) Looks like something that Microsoft and Google could add as an enhancement. In fact, it may compete with parts of Google Wave. But Pixetell looks far simpler. (I started to watch the Google Wave video, but then realized, to my horror, that it wasn't a minute and 20 seconds, but an hour and 20 minutes.)
In a cluttered office, I'm discovering, almost nothing is worth keeping. But as I pack my things, I come across two books that give me second thought:
Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom--Why home values and other real estate investments will climb through the end of the decade, and how to profit from them. By David Lereah (sounds like something I should be on top of...)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Windows Vista. (Who knows, in two or three years, I might "upgrade" to Vista...)
Then my colleague Burt Helm, the marketing and advertising editor, comes by with an envelope. It's a letter from the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation. You'd think these direct marketers would know Burt down to his weekend brunching habits. So it's a surprise to see that they got his title wrong. They call him Bert [sic] Helm, Global President, Baby Kids & Wound Care Franchise. (I wonder if Bloomberg is quietly shifting his beat...)
Still working on saving the archives to this blog. It's a bit of a problem here, because most of the people with control over the innards of this system have been let go. And even if they could help me, Bloomberg no doubt will own the content as of Dec. 1. Maybe I'll just jury-rig something.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it, and a Happy Thursday to the rest of the world. I'll be seeing you at TheNumerati.net.
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Here's a release full of suggestions and #s from the Economic Policy Institute. These are projects that could be geared up quickly.
Created by Stephen Baker Dec 2, 2008 at 3:39pm. Last updated by Stephen Baker Dec. 2, 2008.
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What Obama would build, from CNN Money
BusinessWeek's Business Exchange page on Obama's Stimulus Plan. This picks up news and posts about the topic of his Ning page. I tried to get it into an RSS feed, but it didn't work.
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