TrendBlog » CScout TrendDay: Blogging: could be interesting there (disclosure - I’m on the panel). I will talk about corporate blogging as mode of internal communications.

ooe.ORF.at: “VA-Tech-Übernahme gelaufen
Eine der größten Übernahmen in der österreichischen Industriegeschichte ist perfekt: Nach monatelangem Tauziehen hat Siemens den börsennotierten Linzer Anlagenbauer VA Tech nun in der Tasche.”

More on that on the page of VA-Tech

Yet another proof that the web is real.

Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs : “The results suggest that teenagers stay closer to reality in their online expressions of self than has previously been suggested,”

(Via Culture Cat.)

HBS: Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degress World of Inventors“Perhaps most importantly, our work and more recent work on knowledge diffusion demonstrates that knowledge flows along these collaborative relationships, even years after they were formed. For managers the critical message here is, the world of inventors is getting ’smaller’ in the sense that inventors are more connected to their colleagues in outside firms, and that knowledge is diffusing in both directions. So with regard to agglomeration and connection, the world of inventors is indeed shrinking and becoming a ’smaller world.”