Stephen Baker, a senior writer at BusinessWeek, offers some suggestions on how to improve the magazine now that it’s for sale, noting that he spent the bulk of his time this week on the “final 5 percent” — or tweaking and polishing an article right before it goes to print.
“I see two possible solutions: communities and algorithms.
“First, communities: If we published the stories online earlier, before the last 5%, ‘the reader’ could tell us what he or she wants to know. We wouldn’t have to guess quite as much. Perhaps that process could inform what we eventually publish in the magazine.
“I’ll deal with the algorithms in a later post. It’s much more relevant to BusinessWeek.com than to the paper magazine. But suffice to say that plenty of sophisticated information companies are grappling with the idea of customizing news to individual readers.”
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