Dave Pollard about the use of weblogs for business and why they have a hard time being realized and accepted. What I found irritating in this post is that he only talks about outbound blogs, stating that they lack urgency as a raison d’etre in the world of business. He might be right but if blogs are understood as intranet tools and formats the are granted urgency.

This is problematic evidence though not surprising. The moment you publish internally it can leak outwards. Same is true to emails but nonetheless prose is more appealing and thus it’s calculated.

The Blog of Intel President Paul Otellini:

“Intel President Paul Otellini, who will become CEO in May, has a blog. But it’s an internal blog, available only to Intel employees.

O’Reilly: News — An Interview with Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville:
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“Hill: Did the concept of information architecture originate in the field of information studies?

Morville: It’s hard to say where the concept of information architecture originated, since people have been doing information architecture in one form or another for centuries. The structure and organization of books, maps, libraries, museums, and cities are all artifacts, in one sense or another, of an information-architecture design process.

That’s fascinating. An entire issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication is devoted to search engines. Eszter Hargittai is the editor of this volume. She is my leading authority when it comes to the 2nd level digital divide. We should never forget this particularily if we talk about social software

Eszter’s Blog » JCMC special issue on search engines: “Search engines are some of the most commonly accessed Web sites online.