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Although I already posted a link to this article on May 7, Google CEO Has No Near Term Plans for IPO, I did not pick-up on a statement highlighted by The Register in an article posted today. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt stated: “Soon the company will also offer a service for searching Web logs, …
Why Blogs Haven’t Stormed the Business World is a commentary on the inherent impediments to implementing enterprise-wide blogging tools due to issues such as application interoperability, the volume of data involved, and the hierarchy used for information storage.
In his article Management by Blog? author Jimmy Guterman indicates that blogs have not yet achieved corporate buy-in, although they may be on the crest of the wave as the next gen app even though big muscle KM systems still have a hold on the spotlight.
Movable Type founders Ben and Mena Trott announced that their company Six Apart Ltd. will soon release “TypePad, a hosted service providing powerful tools for creating full-featured weblogs.” See also, Eyeing Blogger, Creators of Movable Type Expand. Looks as if Google now has some formidable competition in the BlogSphere!
Infomania is a blog with links to Iraqi related news and web resources, maintained by Elisabeth L. Donovan, Miami Herald Research Editor.
According to social policy researcher and author Daniel Forbes, “the Russian military analysis Web site, Iraqwar.ru,….offered detailed predictions about coalition troop movements many hours or even days in advance,” but was yanked off-line last week.
The innovative Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) is now using a blog publishing application, provides links to other Yale sponsored blogs and legal-tech content, and offers readers the choice between viewing the journal articles in Word of PDF. See this article from the current issue, Copyright’s Digital Reformulation, by Brodi Kemp (YLS 2004). …
Take a moment to look in on this Iraq War Blog by Angela Gunn, whose well-researched and thoughful commentary includes an interesting range of topics and sources of information not necessarily found on other sites.
This article discusses the pitfalls and the accolades that have accompanied the new vanguard of war news bloggers, many of whom have gained notoriety as well as increased scrutiny of their efforts, including challenges to their content sourcing.
Darlene Fichter, Web wizard, author, speaker, librarian and one of Library Journal’s 2002 Movers & Shakers: The People Who Are Shaping the Future of Libraries, presented a comprehensive program on blogging at the Internet Librarian International 2003. It comprises 49 page PowerPoint slides, and features an analysis of beSpacific in the “Dissecting a web log” …
The Information Law Weblog was launched March 28, is by librarian/researcher/author Paul Pedley, and focuses on copyright, data protection and freedom of information issues in the UK. Well worth a visit. (Thanks to DC for the link.)
Rick Klau attended the April 3 ABATechShow presentation on blogs by Tom Mighell and me, and provided live commentary via his weblog. His postings, in reverse chronological order, appear here, here, here, here, and here. Thanks Rick!
