Yes, I should have given Roy and Steve credit for that idea.

I didn't realize there's a directory of blogs on GotDotNet. I wish there was an aggregated page like the .NET Weblogs have.

Looking for a Microsoft-centric community to join, here's a great starting place.

Joe User's weblog has the skinny on skinning Windows.

Weblogger dinner. San Francisco style. 5:30 p.m. Saturday night. Details here.

Oh, I see over on Dan Gillmor's site that a Sun Microsystems executive (er, PR firm on behalf of) has been pitching blogs. Oh, come now, why didn't I get pitched? Heh.

Chris Meirick has setup a very nice Microsoft Exchange blog. Already getting tons of traffic too.

John Porcaro points at Up2Speed's list of business blogs. Whew, lots here to read. Maryam and I will be going to Silicon Valley tomorrow, so I'll take some of these as reading materials. Yet another advantage of news aggregators: they work at 30,000 feet!

On Friday Jon Udell pointed to one of my comments that I wrote two months ago. I'm a blog cheerleader, and reported on some of the perceptions of MSDN that I was hearing in the hallways. I was incorrect then in saying that it takes three meetings to get an article on MSDN (it doesn't, the MSDN team assures me).

The process, I've heard, is a lot easier than that, and getting better. Lots of changes have been going on in the MSDN team (Chris Sells joined at the same time I did, for instance, and he's working on getting tons of great content up on a new dev center you'll hear about soon) and Tim Ewald's team is rebuilding MSDN's end-to-end infrastructure to make it easier to publish and to enable new features that you'll hear about soon. Also, MSDN has been publishing RSS feeds since April, and supports publishing via weblogs (Don Box's weblog, for instance, is published on an MSDN-run server) so the line isn't as clear between MSDN and weblogs as I tried to make it back then.

I note I'm not the only one noticing the changes at MSDN, either, PocketPC Thoughts recently pointed out that the new mobility center is off to a great start . Anyway, the MSDN team invites anyone who wants to publish an article to contact them (Shawn Morrissey is a good one to contact -- his email is shawnmor@microsoft.com). Also, I extend my invitation to any journalist who uses one of my quotes out of my weblog to contact me before publishing. I will be happy to give you more help and put you in touch with executives, and people who are in charge, so that you can get a more complete story. Yeah, I must admit, my weblog doesn't always get it right and doesn't always give the full story.

One last one before I go to work. Hmmm, I've never gotten this error message (look at the Macy's sign in New York) on Windows XP, but then I have a gig of RAM (which costs, what, $100 or less now?).

Looks like Maryam isn't the only one winning against weblogs. Ed Kaim and Brad Wilson are both taking a bit of time off from their blogs.

It's hard to write every day and keep the rest of your life going. Totally understand. Can't wait til you guys are back, though.

Maryam vs. weblogging? Maryam wins! :-) (explains why I have been weblogging a bit less, got lots of chores around the house now).

Hey, did you see the system is down over at Homestar Runner? Yeah, Steven, I thought that was funny!

Off to work, see ya tonight.