Donnerstag, 17. April 2003

About me: Found on a weblog: So i'm poking around at Matthew Langham's blog via Ed Brill, sort of figuring out who this fellow is. still not sure exactly... Well in case you're still figuring out who I am - then read this.

Interesting discussions: My recent posts on Lotus Notes and corporate weblogging have sparked off an interesting email discussion with Ed Brill on where IBM is on all this. Seems that at the moment the weblogging templates are being developed by a sort-of "grassroots" Notes blogging community that thinks Notes is an ideal platform for this sort of thing - and all that is missing is a template or two. Being a Notes user and being quizzed by (non-weblogging) colleagues on why we would want Notes to have weblogs - when we have the discussion forums - I tell them that it just isn't the same thing. Digging deeper into the Notes community brings up this article with additional pointers that echoes my feelings entirely ("value is where you find it"). Something else I found interesting was this: Like many web trends, at first I was a skeptic.  My cynicism reached an all-time high when supposed industry pundits started claiming that blogs would spell the end of Lotus Notes. Since then, though, I have found that I learn a heck of a lot about the world we live in from reading, and more importantly participating in blogs.  So the time came to start my own. Reading this quote from one of Ed's pages on his weblog and then taking a look at the growing interest in corporate weblogging and you can see why this may be dam just waiting to break. I hope the conversation continues.

Heli-Pressie: Still time to send me an Easter present! This for example. Later: Of course there are also these small remote controlled tanks (via Frank). Just the job to drive round the desk and shoot up all the junk lying there.