Web Links to sites about blogging engines and the underlying technology of blogs.

www.kamat.com/vikas/blogs/blogger.htm Has a core of an application for building a Windows NT blogging engine. Claims it is highly adapted to the needs of corporate clients.

ablog.co.uk A blog about building blogging tools.

http://directory.google.com.pl/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/Tools/ Google space about weblogs and tools.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Weblogs/Weblogs_about_Blogging/ Yahoo site about weblogs and blogging.

This blog is a quick pile of notes related to the idea that by coupling a documentation tool like LiveLink with a blogging tool, and then by making sure people can access the blog with their laptops connected over 802.11b (WiFi), we revolutionize the Lab Notebook, just like we've revolutionized the technical document.

The big advantages of an online lab notebook are:
o Searchable
o Shareable
o HTML/XML with all attendant benefits (multimedia, links, etc.)

This approach was unworkable without WiFi. A year ago we'd go to a meeting, and there would be three people with laptop computers and 8 people with lab notebooks. Today the ratio is the same, but 8 to 3 in favor of notebooks.

So people are using their laptops to keep their Lab Notebooks. Are there user requirements beyond Word to support that activity?
That's what this Blog explores.

Blogging hits mainstream - SF Gate
Writes Joyce Slaton: "Blogging, aficionados say, is revolutionary because it puts the tools for disseminating news into the hands of what traditional media somewhat patronizingly refers to as "consumers" (or, more kindly, "readers"). Just as desktop publishing popularized DIY publications design and digital video tools are making it possible for almost anyone to make a movie, blogging tools are turning Joe Schmoe into Joe Schmoe, reporter."

While public blogs are great and blossomming, the real value of blogs is going to come within organisations for knowledge sharing. It is just like the Internet - we were all taken up by the consumer portals, but as time has gone on, the real business value lies in how the Internet has helped companies re-engineer their business processes and communications across the value chain. It does not make great copy, but it makes for great competitive advantage. That is going to be true for "knowledge" blogs (k-logs) also.