My pal Steve Broback got some nice ink the the New York Times today…On Business, and Blogging on the Road !
The gist of the article is that business travelers aren’t blogging.
Steve’s quote is dead on from my perspective…
“But that appears to be changing. "Just wait," said Steve Broback, a business traveler in Woodinville, Wash., who edits the new blog Inflighthq (www.inflighthq.com) and is an organizer of a blog conference called the Blog Business Summit. "The rush is starting."
Mr. Broback, whose Web journal is sponsored by Connexion, Boeing's wireless division, writes about the plight of the road warrior and offers links to news for business travelers. And he expects a lot of company soon. "In a year or two we'll probably even have blogs focusing on vintage airport vending machines," he predicted.”
But I also agreed with Patrick Gray, whose take is that when you travel a lot, it is just hard to find the time!
Last year I was on the road over 300 days! I had a million things to write about, and was lucky to get out the posts I did. It was difficult to stay organized, get my work done, pitch ActiveWords, and keep motivated, let alone write meaningful blog posts during this period!
Reading this article again, made me think a lot about the idea that I had about creating a blogging tool that would allow me to have an outwardly facing pane along with an inwardly facing pane so that I could use my blog as a personal knowledge management tool.
Writing about business on the road only works if you have your contemporaneous notes in real time right there too!
And darn it, he failed to plug Clip-n-Seal!
Posted by: DL Byron | January 19, 2006 at 06:50 AM
> on the road over 300 days! ... lucky to get out the posts I did.
I think your productivity is amazing, Buzz. Is GTD your secret weapon? Oh wait - you had mentioned your dark pact with that underworld demon! Pricey...
> Writing about business on the road only works if you have your contemporaneous notes in real time right there too!
I'd like to develop this idea. It reminds me of a discussion I had with Eric Mack last week about rapid idea capture, but with support for semi-structured information, and a natural link model. Hasn't been done yet, I think...
Posted by: Matthew Cornell | January 31, 2006 at 05:10 PM