If the only tool you have is a hammer....

A Day In My Life, By Bill Gates. (SOURCE:Scobleizer Radio Weblog)-PREDICTION: Within 10 years, the centre of most knowledge workers (including Bill Gates) will be a blog type application. NOT email. <quote> I'd say that of my time sitting in my office, that is, time outside of meetings, which is a couple of hours, two-thirds of that is sitting in E-mail. E-mail is really my primary application, because that's where I'm getting notifications of new things, that's where I'm stirring up trouble by sending mail out to lots of different groups. So it's a fundamental application. And I think that's probably true for most knowledge workers, that the E-mail is the one they sit in the most. Inside those E-mails they get spreadsheets, they get Word documents, they get PowerPoints, so they navigate out to those things, but the center is E-mail. </quote> [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]

Roland catches the real point of this interview with Gates. The interview provides some interesting raw data on the day-to-day work practices of our economy's quintessential knowledge worker. Email is the tool he has for communications so it is the tool that he uses. It is worth seeing how Gates thinks through how to get leverage from the tools that he has available. We all need to exercise that kind of thought about how to use our knowledge tools -- blogs and aggregators included.

[McGee's Musings] 
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Google says 'no' to Googling [Ars Technica] 
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Group Voice.

Lots of good blog posts these days on the differences of wikis and weblogs.  Of course, since they are all blog posts a clear consensus is never reached.  A good way of explaining the differences between the two tools, as wikis drive current state consensus.

[Ross Mayfield: On Blogging] 
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Halley Suitt on the history of blogs, the rebirth of story-telling, 9-11, corporate fraud, the empowerment of women through blogs, and much, much more: "Weblogs work the way women work, they invite conversation and interaction in order to solve problems. They are not designed with women in mind, but they are all about cooperation, conversation and transparency." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Mark Glaser: One-Man Blogs Prove There Is Money to Be Made by Online Journals 
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Information as Product. From a technical point of view, the idea that information is somehow a product (and therefore should be distributed and taxed like one) is completely ridiculous. Here's why. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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RSS Reading via Email. I have tried more RSS readers, than you have had hot dinners. I have finally settled to have something that integrates with my email. Each blog has a folder and posts are filtered into the correct folder. Bob Lee wrote fetchrss to help with this endeavour, and recently released it via the new java.net portal. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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Schranken der Informationsfreiheit im Internet [heise online news] 
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Exploring XML and RSS in Flash. In this article we will examine the XML processing capabilities of Macromedia Flash, and create an RSS "movie" along the lines of the wildly popular RSS applet. By Michael Classen. 0602 [WebReference News] 
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Rafat Ali, in an article on one-man blog ventures, on the demands of nanomedia and the 14-16 hour days he puts in pointing to articles from other sources: "Link, link, link, link... I can link everybody to death." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Anne Holland: "Wahoo! The average amount a Blogwriter makes by selling ads via BlogAds has gone up from $30 to $50 month, with the really red hot sites pulling $750 monthly." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Web services visionary. [Sam Ruby] 
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RSS-Search Merges with Feedster. [Scripting News] 
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