American Banker have released a blog.  It covers current news in the areas of new regulatory restructuring initiatives, housing policy and financial rescue efforts coming out of Washington.  I like the design, nice and clean, although I am not a fan of partial/ read more posts display.  Some of the posts are reviews and summaries of other newspapers – all good stuff.   If I read that in my Google Reader that means I have to come to the site to read it.  Pro blog readers will tend to read less with that view.

Otherwise a nice start to opening AB up a little bit – there is great content there, and it has been very closed till now.  I always thought that a good model is the Economist, that has free content and premium content – the freemium model is a good way to engage people.

Anyhow good luck with the blog.  You will find it at http://blog.americanbanker.com/bankthink/ and the feed is here.