Many employees might feel that such a system is akin to management eavesdropping on water-cooler discussions. The internal weblogs I’ve seen work are those that track an idea’s progress from offhand notion to fully matured proposal. I have seen three such blogs, always-on virtual whiteboards that have sped development and kept the status of projects clearer than they’d been before. They don’t attempt to capture an organization’s mood.

And I’m not really tired of blogs. Rather, I wish I had more time to read the good ones and discover more between reading the paper that pays my mortgage and reading online versions of other traditional newspapers.

Microsoft-Watch.com> Microsoft posted for download a bunch of Windows XP Fun Packs and PowerToys that build on top of its Windows Media 9, Movie Maker, digital photography and browsing technologies. Among the…

Advertisers, not searchers, will decide the outcome of this battle. Over time, these three conglomerates will drift into the comfortable oligopoly that characterises scientific, technical and medical information publishing and professional information for solicitors and accountants.