Microsoft Blog Policy Coming Down the Pike?: A few weeks ago, we wondered when this would happen. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, given that the GotDotNet blogs are hugely popular and Sun has launched its own blog site.
Some Microsoft employee blogs are hosted on the company’s GotDotNet site. But the majority are not, and are built and maintained by individuals in their own free time. Some Microsoft blogs address the usual personal matters: books read, movies seen, restaurants visited. Others are all about the finer points of writing managed code using .Net. Most seem to fall somewhere in between.
Where does the corporate reach end? Never before has it been so easy to disseminate information. Where does the line between employee and private citizen end? Go read The Cluetrain Manifesto for one opinion.
Worker blogs raise some company concerns: I read Scoble quite a bit, actually. We talked about employees blogging some time ago — I wonder if Microsoft has come out with a definitive policy yet. "There are an estimated 1.2 million blogs, or Web logs — Web pages that function as…
Searching for Commentary on Cluetrain Manifesto: This is an interesting look at how an experienced searcher goes about finding something on Google. In this case, comments about the book "The Cluetrain Manifesto." "On the 'Advanced Google Search' page she then selected the following: Language 'English', Date 'Past 3 months', Occurrences…
weblogs.java.net: Following on the heels of Microsoft's GotDotNet.com blogs, Sun has created their own developer blogging community.
I bought "The Cluetrain Manifesto" to fill a four hour wait at the Orlando airport. When I settled down to read it, I noticed the subtitle on the cover: "The end of business as usual." I felt a sense of impending doom — that phrase is as hackeneyed and worthless…
