Edward Sussman, the President of Mansueto Digital and built the new FastCompany.com has responded to my analysis. He’s done a great job addressing the many points I made, and has responded both on my blog and on his site, where I cross posted.
He’s shared some numbers of growth including activity: “We are approaching 1,000 reader posts a day about business topics raised by our journalists” and member involvement: “Members have set up more than 500 blogs about business.”
I’m going to continue to watch Fast Company as a media company who is embracing the social computing aspect of the future and I encourage you to also watch.
Thank you Ed for being so forthcoming, I will watch with great interest.
Update: How timely, Jemina Kiss asks if UGC is viable for news sites.
Jeremiah
Your posts are always great, where do you find time to blog :). I will subscribe to your blog and will make sure that I read your future analysis of fastcompany.
I budget my time every morning to do it!