Open The Dialogue

This week, BusinessWeek Online has added an “Alerts” service to its site, which allows for a user to subscribe to both categories and keywords and have them land in a desktop app or their email inbox. Probably very useful for those who aren’t using RSS, or don’t want to get the fire hydrant-effect going on by subscribing to entire feeds. I asked BusinessWeek about the decision to add these new communications methods, and was told that the goal here was to “be where users are getting information and provide the information in formats that are most desired by the user – whether it be print, online, on tv, via mobile devices or alerts, podcasts, rss, or blogs.” Additionally, it should be pointed out that Business Week is doing every single one of those as of today.

I know I harp a lot about “choice” here, but this is the reason why.

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