The WashBiz Blog is off and running and the initial response has been good, though I know you critics are out there ;). I started off with just a news-headlines approach to provide a base for the thing, but a few of our staff writers have begun to see how we can use the site to complement the stories we do in the paper, and get in print some of the stuff they know but which really isn't a fully formed story --- yet.
I've been spending some time each day attempting to hoover up all sites that supply local economic data around the region. As you can imagine, the data that is available is very uneven from county to county. Getting this all in one place should be a community service.
And that's what the blog is supposed to be---not a vanity project but a service to readers. Of course, part of that service is to tell readers all the good stuff in WaPo each day. So when it seems appropriate, I'll point to bizzy-related stories in other sections as a navigation aid to readers online and off.
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