hmmm... no streaming.

I am going to distribute this post from Scoble to others in the university system.  Clearly, the blog tool is coming of age.

Must also add the following stories:

Microsoft’s Gates touts blogging as business tool.  Yahoo! Post

Gates tells CEOs to blog.

On a day when Bill Gates tells his CEO friends that blogs and RSS are cool, it seems appropriate to link to Dare Obasanjo's "history of blogging at Microsoft" post. Joshua Allen deserves the credit for being the first Microsoft blogger. He took a lot of hard knocks changing Microsoft's culture. Now it's popular to blog at Microsoft (and approved by our top execs). Three years ago that wasn't true at all. It's funny, I remember telling Joshua he was "the face of evil" -- it's interesting how tables have turned. Thanks Joshua!

Here's the relevant links about Gates talk today:

Mary Jo Foley: Gates pushes 'power to the people' message.
Reuters: Microsoft's Gates touts blogging as business tool.
Transcript and slides from Gates speech today (look for the Channel9 slide!)
Guardian: It's the human touch that slicker official communications can't match.
Seattle PI: Gates touts the merits of blogs in speech to CEOs

Oh, and BillG: when you gonna blog?

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

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