BoomTown launches….again
The Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher wrote the BoomTown column during the dot-com boom. It faded after the bubble burst. Now she’s back with a BoomTown blog. With the Dow breaking the 13,000 barrier at new highs, and the technology-strong Nasdaq creeping steadily upward since 2002, this may indeed be an appropriate name.
Her blog is part of the All Things Digital site, just launched with Walt Mossberg, the well known reviewer of personal technology.
Swisher is a talented writer, and this should be fun to watch. She starts with a piece about Yahoo’s Terry Semel.
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
