We’ve been having fun coming up with new features to supplement the steady stream of breaking news that will appear on our upcoming Seattle technology site. You’ll see preliminary versions of some of them as we test concepts on this interim blog. But we’re more interested in hearing what you have to say on the subject. So here’s the question: If you could create the perfect site for the Seattle region’s technology community, what would you include?
Feel free to offer your thoughts in the comments section below.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Denis Du Bois // Sep 29, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Don’t forget about clean energy technologies, one of the industries expected to bring continued prosperity to the NW.
Washington is home to a long list of clean-energy companies, large and small, in many sectors of the energy industry — from Imperium (biodiesel) to Itron (smart grid) to Xantrex (solar) to Optimum (buildings), and many more.
Clean energy is a very different tech industry from software, with meaningful implications!
2 John Cook // Sep 30, 2008 at 8:57 am
Thanks Denis. Clean energy or clean tech will certainly be a part of our coverage plan.
It is a fascinating area and as more dollars flow into the sector, I certainly want to cover it.
We’ve chatted a bit about ideas on how to cover the industry, but if you have specific ideas let me know.
Thanks again,
John Cook
johnharoldcook@gmail.com
3 BadTimingGene // Oct 20, 2008 at 1:49 pm
John - You are an honest-to-goodness good journalist. A real reporter and you have a great network of sources. I have even had the semi-bad luck of being profiled by you. Let me give you one piece of advice: Go get your job back at the PI or put a feeler out there at the Times. The PBSJ guys are incompetent if they can’t get a blog together within 24 hours just like the WordPress blog you have. Secondly, the PBSJ does not have the daily reach that augments your platform. The market is not going to be great…it will be much easier for the PBSJ to change their mind or pull the plug on two salaries. Cut your losses. Go back to the PI…and write a book on the side when you get a chance and you’ll make some money. A great franchise is hard to build…you have a following…don’t blow it.
4 Life in Pierce County // Dec 20, 2008 at 6:53 pm
My suggestion would be to cover cottage industry - the good, the bad, and the ugly of it.
My community (Midland) has seen a boom in CI recently, and our main traffic corrider, Portland Avenue, is being over-taken by non-compliant businesses operating out of residential dwellings.
Thanks.
Stacy Emerson
Unincorporated Pierce County
5 Shaun Murphy // Feb 15, 2009 at 4:11 pm
First, thank you for your hard work.
Great. Eager to see this emerge. VERY eager for upbeat, positive, encouraging business news. All this ‘chicken-little-the-sky-is-falling’ annoying noise coming to us from mainstream media channels is extremely difficult to stomach. Sure we are in a rough patch and the fact is we live and work in the most opportunity-rich economy in the history of the world. It is our responsiblity as business people to succeed as a result of our personal industry and output. It is time to stand up, shrug off the unpleasantness, reinvent ourselves, and move boldly forward. Please report (show) how down to earth, humble, focused, diligent firms right now are prospering. This way your work will be inspirational to those in our community aspiring to contribute. Long ago when I was new in business in Kansas City and first subscribed to the Kansas City Business Journal, this was how the Business Journal imacted me as I formed my work ethic. This is my hope for how the PSBJ will impact our community and our children in the years ahead. Like the Texan said who had just been bucked from the bull as he picked himself up from the dust and dirt, ‘This ain’t my first rodeo Darlin’.’ Rodeo is adventure, as is business. Game on.
6 Lynn Rolewicz // Feb 28, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Thanks for updating the Top Ten Answerers in every category in Y/A. In Category “Other-Health” under “Health” it still says that the Top Answerer has 1216 Best Answers. It should be changed to 2385. Thank you very much.
7 susan amira // Apr 3, 2009 at 5:24 am
Please help! I have been trying to contact Lynn Rolewicz, who wrote to you on Feb. 28, 2009, for 30 years! Could you please forward my email to her? susanw@inter.net.il.
thanks
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