Doc thinks "corporate blogging" is an oxymoron.   I disagree.  A weblog (K-Log) is a powerful publishing tool.  It takes desktop publishing to a new level by adding instant one-to-many distribution, powerful organization (time-based and by individual), and connectivity (via blogrolls, subscription lists, and community features).  Sure, weblogging up to now has been highly personal, stylized, and out-of-control -- that is about to change.  We can't constrain this tool to just one use.   There are very exciting corporate applications of this technology.  Their addition to the mix will make the weblogging world a more interesting space. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Maybe there are two different possible ways to do "corporate weblogging".

One is letting employees of a company own a public weblog, the other is using internal weblogs as an additional communication tool.

While I think that the first kind of use can be very interesting and a powerful marketing tool, I can see very clearly the kind of problems that it could possibly cause and why companies, especially large ones, will stay away from it at least for a while.

As far as internal weblogging (uh... k-logging?) is concerned, meaning weblogs hosted on an intranet and accessible only inside a company's firewall, well, I believe that there's huge potential and that there will be more as these tools will evolve.

Welcome to Tara Sue's new weblog. It's a Manila site, so we can work on the templates while she's posting. It also has membership, you can join the site, and get bulletins, and participate in the discussion group. Of course since it's a website, it's still a work in progress, but it's a lot more functional than the original site. [Scripting News]

I think that this is a great idea. Some time ago I started discussing with a few friends the project to give a weblog to each Italian politician. It would make a lot of sense.

Chatting with another Italian weblogger this morning he reminded me of this idea.

So I'm starting my campaign now with this post (it's in Italian). If you are an Italian politician, you can have a copy of the soon to be available Italian version of Radio, a nice domain name and all instructions to get going for 49.00 Euros.

And now... let's see what happens.

Milosevic Trial Resumes Today. In the witness chair at the United Nations war crimes tribunal, Bosko Radojkovic described his own role in a gruesome cover-up. By Marlise Simons. [New York Times: International]

Same tribunal as below...

There are a lot of very interesting opinions and suggestions about it in the two posts' comments. I also learned that some people are not using bookmarks anymore.

Personally, I did change the way I use bookmarks. I'm not bookmarking sites I read anymore (I use a news aggregator to read them), but I'm using bookmarks to navigate all the applications that use a browser as their interface. In other words, I do use the news aggregator to read my contents, but I have a bookmark to my news aggregator on the navigation bar of my browser, just like I have bookmarks for all other local Radio pages, for stats pages of all my sites and for other "service" pages.

So, I still need a way to manage my bookmarks.

I particulary like Mikel's idea to manage bookmarks as opml files, it makes a lot of sense.

Anyway, no volunteers to write this tool yet .

Krzysztof Kowalczyk: I think that we should go beyond RSS. The idea is very sketchy, but the gist of it is: RSS should only be one source of information. What would other sources be? I don't know. Maybe periodically re-run Google query that alerts you to new pages for your query?

What should probably be defined is if RSS can be expanded to manage contents different from news, or if there should be other protocols to get stuff into aggregators (which will then become simply "aggregators" and not "news aggregators").

A very interesting step in this direction has been taken by Mikel Maron with his excellent myRadio tool.

I believe that Mikel's is definetly a step in the right direction, this is why I would really like to work with him.

(but the really beatuful part here is that I can have exchange of ideas with someone living in Italy. Awesome.)

It's a small world, uh? Btw, this is approximately where I am now.

The Bush administration has warned European nations that the American role in NATO will change if the European Union refuses the United States' request for agreements to keep Americans out of the reach of the new International Criminal Court.

This new court is located in The Hague, in the Netherlands, where this news doesn't sit too well. The general vibe here in the lowlands is that the US can and will invade to free any US citizens held in tribunal custody.

Pretty unnerving, considering the Netherlands just recently agreed to invest 800 million dollars in Joint Strike Fighter development funding.

Perhaps that decision should be revisited? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

The International Criminal Court is where the trial against Slobodan Milosevic is currently held. The statute for the court has already been signed by many countries. The U.S. want to keep Americans out of reach of this Court, and they would invade the Netherlands to free a US citizen?

It's indeed pretty unnerving...

Ever heard of phantom limbs? Well, this is nothing as serious, but I keep turning to the empty part of my desktop where my PowerBook usually sits...