Business Week is now running yet another article that tries to get to the heart of Myhrvold’s plans — though his company, Intellectual Ventures is being quite secretive. The article does discuss his “invention sessions” where he brings together a bunch of smart folks to brainstorm — where the whole conversation is recorded and monitored by patent lawyers looking for anything they can file patents on. Business Week is by far my favorite place for information on business schools. Once every two years (which is the correct frequency to rank schools) it comes out with a new set of school rankings. Business Week is not only showing students how to purchase and ship their products; it is teaching them how to navigate business operations in foreign countries. For example, Business Week teaches that something as simple as holding your thumb and index finger up means two completely different things in two different countries.
We’ve never read BusinessWeek for travel or fashion, and never really understood what the point was. The only all in one magazine we’ve ever liked is the Spectator out of London. We’ve been linking to Business Week’s website for many, many years here on Techdirt. A quick search shows a long list of posts that all link to articles on the Business Week site.
Reporters will tell you that you’ll get to see the story first and approve it ahead of time, or that they’ll list your website. But they aren’t required to follow up on their promises. Reporters with real industry understanding are expected to file short stories in minutes based on todays news, then turn out 1200 word articles that are news analysis.