Microsoft Watch: "[I]t seems as if Microsoft corporate is beginning to take more of an active interest in how its employees are expressing their opinions in their Web logs. On Tuesday, as part of its ongoing series of discussions about Microsoft and community, the company is holding an internal panel to discuss employee Weblogging."

Robert Scoble has more: "From when I compared notes with Beth Goza afterward, it was similar to a panel session that happened a week ago at the Weblogger (JupiterResearch Business Weblog Conference) conference. No more or less sinister than that."

Speaking of more or less sinister panels from last week's conference, I'm assembling the feedback from my panel to Phil Wolff's questions and hope to post it this weekend. Sorry for the delay, but I still need to be writing and editing other things at the moment. [Bag and Baggage]

Technorati Developers Playground. A Wiki. FrontPage - Technorati Developers Site Technorati Developers Playground... [Raw Blog]

Dave Sifry has set up a  Wiki to support developers using the Technorati APIs.

At the iMedia Summit in Scottsdale last month, Andrew Heyward, President, CBS News spoke about a number of interesting and enlightening topics. One thing stuck with me greater than all of the others.

He said that teens and kids (and probably others) have a new way of taking information in.

They don't get all of their information from a single, linear stream such as reading a complete analysis or watching CBS News every night. Rather, they get parts of a story from many different sources. Little snippets rather than start to finish. The amazing part of this is that their research shows that they have an amazingly accurate view of the big picture and what is really happening. He calls this group "information impressionists." Media pointillism. I love it. This is a sign that communications as we know it will substantially change, as this group gets older and become adult consumers. [MediaPost - Online Spin] by David L. Smith <more>

The full article is worth a read for bloggers, especially business bloggers. Essentially, blogging fits this "little snippits of information" description. The major difference is that the blog reader is typically in their post-teen years.

John Lawlor - business blogging evangelist - Boca Raton, FL 2003-06-20