"Stop Energy is not reasoned, it never takes into account the big picture, it is the mirror image of Forward Motion. In the Stop Energy model, everyone, no matter how small their stake in a technology, has the power to veto."

I know what that is! I had this every step of the way when I was starting up weblogging communities. Everybody I talked to, in the hope that they would pick up on my forward energy and dance along energy said, "you'll need to do this." Or, you can't do that. Not until I started to ignore them did I move forward. But is still could have done with advice - deciding what was SE and good advice was my downfall.

Reading this has helped crystalise my own mind. I'll seek less advice and make certain, that I can deal better with the SE when it comes.

I missed this article last year. Found via J Robb's comments re RSS/Echo.

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"In March 2002, any conflict with Iraq was still far away. That month saw the first discussion by British Government officials of compiling a 'dossier of evidence' against Saddam.

George W Bush had already made it clear to Blair at a summit in Washington that Iraq 'had to be dealt with'."

I still want to know why? I was for going after the WMD. I was suckered. I want to know why they thought it necessary to take out Saddam. What were the geopolitical reasons? They know WMD were a good 'man in the street' reason, but it was not theirs. What was Bush's reasons?

More from the Guardian article, in fact the last paragraph: Sir John Stanley, Conservative MP and former Minister, gave a clear exposition of what the committee believe the issue is about. 'The most crucial aspect of the interface between intelligence and policy - and you, Mr Campbell sit right down in the middle - is that intelligence helps to formulate policy and that policy never, never helps to formulate intelligence,' he said.

Campbell now awaits the verdict of the committee in eight days' time.

7th July... I'll be waiting.

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Other title(s) for this story: War of the words, diversionary tactics, sacrificial lambs

"Battle Spectacular (and Victorian Steam Fair) A Re-enactment, of the Battle of Malvern Hill, with Cannons, Infantry and Cavalry. Weston Park, Telford, Shropshire July 26-27th" Whooo-Hoo! This sounds like loads of fun. Though I'm worried that the kids may not like the noise.

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"On Sunday 6 July Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire's Ironbridge Gorge will stage a working horse event to demonstrate the important role played by equines in daily life over a hundred year's ago. Up to ten horses across a range of breeds and sizes will demonstrate their strength and grace while performing traditional tasks such as pulling historic trade vehicles and private carriages or hauling timber from the woods." Sounds OK, though life time (?) family entry of £40 is a bit steep, I see you can do day entry...

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9.30 am. So me and Bradley end up doing our usual football practice as Esme does her ballet. I'm not allowed to take pictures of this. I'd really like to get one of the changing area, parents and kids in ballet costumes everywhere, such pandemonium. But obviously, no chance. I may ask to get some of the class room. Esme keeps telling me how wonderful Miss Nichola is, maybe she'll let me, if she sees actuallly in the camera what shots I've got. Can but ask.

At the end of Ballet I say to Alison that I don't know what to do with the kids today, and she says there's a kite show in Shrewsbury. As it happens I was thinking of catching the train over there to go swimming. Nice view from the A5 at the end of the M54, looking toward Shrewsbury and Church Stretton, Welshpool and the Long Mynd. See map.	I have to fill up the Renualt with petrol. Get over the Shawbirch to pick up my cash card of Amanda who's cutting out baby sitter's hair, also swap cars, drop a map off to Alison, who now I find out is also going to the kite show. Fill up the Fiat, as that's empty too (grr) and get to a cash point, before I can drive over to Shrewsbury.

Kite Festival. We made it! A few specialist shops, one kites, one boomerangs, one frisbees, and one African art, dunno why. I'd love to get one of those huge kites, that look like parachutes, but at £108 I can't really justify it. Anyway, there's very little wind, most of the time there's no kites up, then a gust lasting maybe 10 minutes puts loads of kites up. I spend ages running with Esme and Bradley and our kite, trying to end the pouts re: who's turn is it now, with Alex, Francis but not polite Amy joining the melee. It's worth all the hastle to see Bradley running off with the kite high in the air, he runs right to the edge of the field, then turns around, thusly the kite falls, but I can hear him he he'ing to himself as he goes. Esme give it some too. I just wish there was enough wind to do without the running, then I could get another kite - one each - to stop the constant "my turns."		Aunty Alison, has a go with the kite for Bradley, while Alex, her son is giving it some with his in the background. His goes quite well, and he runs off to the edge of the field, Alison sets off after him fearing he won't stop. This is a common problem all day.
Of course, the ladies come prepared, with blanket, picnic, and all the trimmings. Me? Well, I only heard about it a few minutes before we set off, so that's my excuse. I supply the chips from the take-away stand. Sue (sunglasses) is sitting down giving instructions and disciplining the queue for the rocket machine. Just jump on the box, and it flies through the air. Bradley gets pissed off, because first time I pick him up and drop him on it. He wanted to do it himself, and in front of his peers I think this is too much - he wants to go home. Eventually he gets it, and can jump on the box just like the rest. He also pointed out that we'd got one of these pump boxes at home, for the swimming pool.
Esme's a bit mardy today. I think it's due to a small cold. She has a little cut on her finger nail - biting her nails - it takes me ages to bring her back to reality. We all have some crying troubles. I think it's the sun, as they're all wincing, even though it's not shining, it's very bright. She had this top for Xmas	Got no idea what he's got in his hand. But he does well again with the toilet. I say to Sue as I notice him pulling his willy, "very Italian." She laughs.	Pretty funny seeing Bradley with his hands behind his back. Amy, Sue's daughter, chases a frisbee in the background.
Sue, and Alison disappear off to the tent shops, and come back with a kite each for Alex, Francis and Amy. I sigh. Knowing that I'll be doing much more running about, more tangles, etc. It works to not so bad, but at one stage we'd got four kites trying to fly, kids running every direction trying to launch them, phew! All in all it's a good day. Pity about the wind, I think I'll come back with them again on Sunday, maybe windy then.	Francis, Alsison's middle daughter, she's turning out to be huge, not fat, just big and tall.	If you want to get a head, get a hat. Esme looks so cool in her Barbie base ball hat. Bradley looks a nob. Have to get him some more selection in hats. Esme gets a pick frisbee, green seems to be Bradley's favourite colour at the moment. I'll pack well if I end up going there again tomorrow.

		"Me go moon."

	I ditch Esme at Sue's. Bradley isn't allowed. He's too young and needs too much attention. Amanda's to cut Sue and Amy's hair. He's not amused and throws a tantrum. I have to man handle him into the car. I ask him where he wants to go as way of commiseration. "Gungle bungle." We stop out side as there's a bouncy castle. Bradley finds it hard to climb the first bit, as it's so steep and he's in socks, at the end he can, "do it, on mine own."	It maybe a blurry shot, but he looks ever so good in the Bart sunglasses watching telly with the curtains closed, I just had to add it here.
He enjoys himself inside, as there's hardly anybody else there. He even climbs all the way to the top, which is some height. Then we go to Matalan to buy some glasses and dishes. We also buy some sunglasses as they were by the till and I remembered them squinting at the sun at the kite festival. Bradley pulls the stand apart, but the youngsters at the till can hear but not see. I smile broadly and the think it's funny, I say to Bradley get ready to run, he says why? Another trantrum in the car, he wants to go to Alison's as "it's nice there." But we've got to go home for dinner. He's plonked in front of the telly, with sunglasses on and I get 10 mins of kip awaiting Amanda and a MacDonalds. End of a full day!

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Other title(s) for this story: Football, ballet, kites, bouncy castle, jungle bungle, Matalan, sunglasses

I pick them up from school. What to do? We go off to the big park as that seems to be to popular vote. But as it's rainy we visit the bowling for a while where they play on the video car racing games for a while, then watch the bowling.

And end up watching the skating, which today it ice hockey. It's so damn cold in there, and we're just in out shorts and tee-shirts, we don't last long. Just enough to play on the chairs upstairs as tradition would have it.

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Other title(s) for this story: Ice skating bowling after skool

Lance Knobel interviews the first blogging MP: Labour's Tom Watson, "I wanted to convey information very quickly and do it myself. I wanted to be relevant."

Apparently there's, now, two blogging MPs: Liberal Democrat Richard Allen is at it too.

I don't find their news particularly exciting. I'll keep looking for a while and see if it picks up, or if I get into their character and plot.

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Other title(s) for this story: Tom Watson, blogging MP

"The position of those phones can now be displayed on a map. FleetOnline allows you to query the mobile phones used by the work force to see their whereabouts on a geographic map."

This is pretty good. 20p - 25p depending on operator. No All charges are on your mobile's bill, can be pre-paid or contract. 5/100 yards in cities to 5 Km in countryside... Also, SMS handlers. Can be friends or family as well as enmployees. Can specify 'off' hours too.

My partner, Amanda is a mobile hairdresser, always running late... Hmmm.

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Other title(s) for this story: Track your mobile work force

"The RSS feeds on this page were set up to help you keep track of new products on Amazon.com. If you'd like to find even more RSS feeds, check out Syndic8.com and Feedster."

Very nice, and helpful, along with more 168 from the BBC. RSS is making big inroads. I doubt that this new Echo format will be able to catch up.

Tim Bray: "RSS has huge business potential. Here is a laundry list of a few things you could (and I think should) use it for. There are big-money implications. But thereÕs at least one big obstacle too..."

Having and RSS feed delivered from my bank re: my account or credit card would certainly be very handy, as Tim explains above. I'd also like that on my phone, as David Davies has.

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Other title(s) for this story: 160 Amazon RSS channels, BBC and Echo format

I don't know why he pulled his shy face, he's usually up for a picture.

We play golf in the garden. I must start putting Bradley's nappy on more often or at least some pants. Can't upload some of the nicer pix due to nudity. We then move on to football, and I must say Esme's starting to look the part. Bradley however, had the ball kicked into his face, as he was deciding whether to cry or not, Esme kicked him as she went for the ball. He went off inside more in a huff than crying. Sat down on at the little table, pulling a jib, demanded that we go outside, as he was tired, and he wanted his milk.

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Other title(s) for this story: Golf and football in the garden

"Our aim is to have a viable Welsh desktop running by the 2003 National Eisteddfod in August. If you want to help, read on!"

More here from ZDnet. "If I wanted to get a Welsh version of Windows, it would mean a lot of lobbying and probably spending a lot of money to get it done," Donnelly said. "With free software it cuts through all that."

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Other title(s) for this story: Welcome to Kyfieithu!

I've been left in charge. Amanda's gone off on some beauty course, so I start with playing golf, but it's hard to keep to the rules, and with golf rules are everything. So, then I get bored and started tidying up the side path, with a little help from the little help. Here, they are playing with the lorries, pulling up weeds and putting them in the trucks. Esme's just poured some water on a patch of dirt, hoping it would soften up the hard ground, so she could dig deep for worms. She likes worms. Bradley's not so keen. Actually, that's a big understatement.

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Mr. Meckler(CEO Jupitermedia) views blogging as a marketing opportunity. "But it doesn't work unless you have some personality in it," he said.

Tim O'Reilly, (president of O'Reilly & Associates)  views blogging as a way for chief executives to do an end run around the company's public relations firms and "glossy brochures" and speak directly to customers and vendors.

Ms. Ireland, (CEO Cheskin, a marketing consulting firm in Calif.) you have to hit just the right tone or you will turn off customers, she said, by making it seem "like you're trying to market the company."

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Other title(s) for this story: The Corporate Blog Is Catching On

The Government Office Intranet is still haunting me. Will I ever be free? ";->"

Still writing the report. Finally collected everything into one outline, now to sting it all together into a nice read. Later, I'll add some nice formatting, and mouse over tricks.

I've been reading some intranet advice sites, and there are plenty, I think we've got most things covered. One thing I'd like to concentrate on is the internal promotion of the intranet. So that users look there first, before asking someone on the phone. Part of that would revolve around the production of calendar posters placed in every office. Over a few months I guess people would get the message, and the writers will be encouraged.

Here is a nice calendar that I'd like to make into a Manila plugin.

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Other title(s) for this story: Report writing

The side by side comparisons for the new G% against the Windows world, "Apple ran the Adobe Photoshop tests using a 600MB Photoshop file."

A 600MB file? What the hell's in that? Is it just a big file in pixels (width x height), or has it hundreds of layers, channels and filters?

I've been reading about the new G5s having upto 8GB of RAM as well, now I'm missing something here, what would a user what with all this horse power? Video? Sure. But Photoshop files? Well, I suppose I haven't really pushed Photoshop for sometime, maybe I should get one of these machines and try. Doing web graphics, and 1 megapixel pix from my digital camera, I couldn't get close to 600MB!

The new bluetooth stuff sounds very good. Using a phone as a proximity sensor, really does blow my mind. To stop iTunes as I move out of a room and start it back up again is pretty cool. And it being Applescriptable opens up a whole new world. Though, I see Nokias aren't yet compatible, only Sony-Ericsson.

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Other title(s) for this story: Power Mac G5 - Performance tests

Amanda was working, and wanted to get on with some house chores, so I disappear with the kids to Wales for the weekend. On the way down on Friday evening we pass the Telford Steam Museum and it was Bradley who spots... Thomas Tank. We turn around, because I forgot the camera, and all Bradley can say to his Mum, "Omas Ank in ed." I'll translate, "Thomas Tank in shed." We watch him get filled up with coal and we're back on the road for the 2 hour journey. During which neither of them stops talking!

Look at that mountain in the background!
	Saturday: we're at the Cwmaman Community Education Centre. So, the Lottery does do some good. As my old man says, better it spent here than a few nights of bloody opera in London. There's a cinema which doubles as a theatre, community rooms, and most importantly a bar. I'm sure there's a lot more there, but I didn't see it all, I had four kids in tow. There was a bouncy castle at this fate, I'm not sure of the good cause, but it was a nice place to visit, about a mile further up the valley from my Mum's house. I just couldn't get over the location. These mountains look wonderful, if only they were in reach of broadband, I'd move there in a... Mind I'd have to consider the travelling to clients, but then I don't do much of that, most biz is on the phone, through the 'net...

Saturday night: why do kids want to play in dirt? Here they are, in the 'den' an old garage in the lane at the bottom of my Mum's lane. Well, I used to play in exactly the same place. The game is cleaning up the den, which involves scraping up stones and throwing them into the lane. Why this is so much fun, I begin to ponder, it must be the group activity, the common cause/task. All pulling together in harmony? Anyway, the game develops, my sister appears with some buckets and spades, and a bins comes from somewhere. Now, they are gathering all the dust as well as the stones, plumes of dust are coming out of the bin, and the game is christened, 'making fire.' It is not enough to gather the small amounts of stones from the den, now they're in the lane scooping up dust, and piling it into the bin in an organised, "keep the fire going" hurried procession. I watch in certain knowledge that my sister, my Mum, Alex's mum would all play merry hell if they could see this, and settle down in my watching seat with my beer.

Sunday. Bradley and Esme insist on taking a photo of me. The one of me bending down is by Bradley. He finds it difficult to look through the screen at the back of the camera, so I bend down as he pans slowly to the floor. Esme took a decent one, if it wasn't for the back lighting. If I had enough time to pause and check it out she could have taken another one, but the game's afoot and they move off to another possibly destructive venture, so I have to move with them and the moment is lost. The stable pix is funny. I ask them to stand back near the horse for a pix, slowly they get close once more, but this time there is more fear in the air, and Bradley copies Esme by clenching up their finger just in case the horse may bite them off. Of course, there's no chance of this, but it's a big horse! So no matter what I say, this is the only pix I'm getting of them with this horse. I've been into the museum at the visitor centre so many times, and I've never enough time to look at the panels. Now, as I see that the pix have come out reasonably well, I'll snap them and read them at my leisure.
In the Cwmdare Visitor Centre, having a cup of tea and pop and an ice cream. Behind my Dad's back is a TV which is all fuzzy, like someone's pulled the aerial out. He reads the poster next to it. Apparently there's a falcon's nest, and this is supposed to be a live feed.			I pull up some ferns and tell Charlotte (my niece), Bradley and Esme that they're umbrellas. We heard some thunder, and before we set out, the weather man got it all wrong. Big claps of thunder send Bradley running inside onto my lap. Esme was wary but as Charlotte was there, she was braver than normal.
While the other two use the fern to sweep the road behind them as they walk, Bradley, I think is a little bit nervous of the thunder returning.			Fun feeding the rabbits at the stables. Nice of them to put this here, though as my Mum suspects, it doesn't get many visitors, and I worry that the rabbits are a little too hungry, but I spy plenty of dried rabbit food in their run, and they're definitely not skinny. Bradley squeals with delight. I warn him they may bite his fingers so he's extra cautious.

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Other title(s) for this story: Aberdare: Thomas Tank, Cwmdare Community Centre...

"The GIF graphics file format was invented by CompuServe in 1987. In the years since, a debate has been raging as to the correct way to pronounce "GIF": like "jif", or with a hard 'g' as in "gift" as a majority of Mac users seem to prefer. With this page I intend to clear this up once and for all..."

Well, that's clear. But I'll still call them 'ghiffs.' And Jay-pegs. And P.N.G.s Always has been always will be.

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Other title(s) for this story: The GIF Pronunciation Page

"To participate simply bring your camera-enabled cellphone to any love hotel on the evening of Thursday, July 3rd 2003 and post photos and commentary to the shared public blog for the event."

'Nuff said!

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Other title(s) for this story: 1st International Moblogging Love Hotel Conference

Example: "Leaning against a wall
I was standing next to a wall and began to feel a little tired. I leaned to the side against the wall and continued to adopt this slightly more comfortable posture for several moments."

187 comments to that one post!

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Other title(s) for this story: The dullest blog in the world

"Welcome to Keitai Log, an occasional Web diary by a group of Tokyo college students who are researching the changing role of cell phones -- keitai -- in Japanese society."

Should be interesting, isn't at mo.

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Other title(s) for this story: Keitai Log

"One day last weekend, I had nothing to do. I was visiting my old Radio weblog, and started wondering how many others had jumped ship like myself. 98 lines of Ruby later, I had a set of totally useless statistics... "

Half interesting stats. Though I think there's more, like me, who've moved to our own hosting and not updated the Userland version. And I'd bet that over the past few months, as blogging's become bigger the numbers have jumped.

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Other title(s) for this story: Radio Userland Curiosity

We take a walk up the mile and a half to the waterfall - all 16 foot of Shropshire's only waterfall! Bradley's not too keen on it, he gets splashed and won't go near it again. Esme thinks it's great and does a wibble wobble for the camera. Later we take the steps (behind Amanda) up to the top. A dumb move as I have to carry Bradley up (not so bad) and back down (very scary!)
We're there only a few minutes and unpacking, when I see Bradley disappearing up the stream, I shout to come back, he pauses, shrugs his shoulders and carries on. He's getting more and more independent these days. Have to keep our eye on him.	We're just starting off on our long, long, long trip. If I had realised that I'd have to carry Bradley all the way up! When we're nearly there, two women say to Bradley, "and you walked all the way by yourself?" "No! I carried the lazy bugger." By this time I'm panting and dripping in sweat.
Must get that hub cap replaced.	With the waterfall just in the background and Amanda disbelieving that we walked all this way for that tiny thing, we take a rest.

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Other title(s) for this story: Church Stretton

Amanda's taken them out to pick some strawberries from a local farm. We all pig out on them. A few days later I look in the fridge and see we really ought to pig out more on them. They go soggy too quick.

Flying like birds.

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Other title(s) for this story: Strawberries in the garden

I've more pix on the camera, but someone's doing the carpet on the stairs. These were from 1st June, when we had our first proper sunshine. I bought them a new swimming pool, more pix have Bradley naked in them so Manda doesn't want them blogged. Our garden is becoming more like lego-land, with kiddy-klutter everywhere. The rest are from the Telford Town Park. Esme's red hair looks wonderful in this light. And godknows what Bradley's shouting about, nothing in particular, I think he was just marching and shouting, he like doing that.

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Other title(s) for this story: Catching up

"(6) If you are approached by a salesperson, explain that everyone present lives together, in a huge converted warehouse in Long Island City, and that you are there looking for a "[secret phrase]." Explain that you make all purchases as a group."

Art or just prankiness? School kid prankiness me thinks. See more pix. Funny. $10,000 rug?

"

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Other title(s) for this story: cheesebikini?: Flash Mobs Take Manhattan

"It's a solution relying on CSS3 selectors, so you'll need Mozilla or some other Gecko spin-off to get the full effects. "

Nice little idea, and Sjoerd seems to think his works in MSIE too.

1053 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 3:11:11 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: From footnotes to sidenotes

" The all-but-final proposal draft says that Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or "blogs"), must offer a "right of reply" to those who have been criticized by a person or organization. "

Euro-bloggers would be knackered, but me here in the UK, will probably be left out of this nonsence.

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Other title(s) for this story: Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet

"test styles opens a popup window in which you can type CSS rules that will be applied instantly to the page you are viewing, while edit styles does the same thing but pre-populates the window with the style sheets of the current site, allowing you to edit them in place. ancestors is also useful; it shows the element hierarchy of the element your mouse is currently over, which can help you see what selector you need to use to modify that element's style."

Sounds well useful. Haven't tried them out yet, but will report later.

1051 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 2:19:00 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Using bookmarklets to experiment with CSS

A competitor, I guess, but useful quotes for me ";->"

Weblogs offer enterprises an alternative to e-mail or traditional content management by providing easy to use publishing tools that create a unified repository of shared information can be quickly disseminated.

[Weblogs] save them from printing out documents and e-mails and putting them in folders.

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Other title(s) for this story: Traction tailors Weblogs for business process

I need to write a report for the Governement Office's Intranet project. In it I need to say what will be the next steps. So, I'm lloking around for some quotes about blogging in business and this geezer 'Rock' has pointed out some nice little bits for me...

With his budget and staff slashed, Connecticut state CIO Rock Regan is looking to Weblogs as a key tool to keep his organization running.

...the ability to capture knowledge about current problems and upcoming technologies and distribute it across a company quickly has become critical, he said. Weblogs let employees jot down notes and ideas on pages available across the corporation.

"We desperately want to use [Weblogs] for project management," because the department, which serves 65 agencies, has so many projects that it could benefit from a shared knowledgebase, he said.

Regan said Weblogs are proving vital in breaking down bureaucratic walls. "My people in general don't communicate well on projects," he said.

Weblogs are proving a way for employees to realize what they have in common.

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Other title(s) for this story: Weblogs winding their way into business nets

Still busy building the intranet for the Government Office of the West Midlands.

No time to blog. Well, that's not true, there's always time to blog, just that, I can't be arsed most of the time. If I've got some spare time, I don't want to be on a computer, I want to taste some life - mainly with the kids.

Next week, the job'll be finished and I'll catch up blogging the kids, got plenty of pix to put up and there's lots to write about regarding the recent biz blogger conference.

Here's a nice quote that stuck in my mind: Adam talks about the barriers to entry with CMS systems. Boy is that ever true. We tried to put a CMS system in place in Utah and I think its still not off the ground. Its difficult to get the use cases right, difficult to train people, and requires a lot of money (more than its worth, perhaps). About the same time, I started playing around with Radio because it was a personal CMS. We'd have been better off to just buy Manila for $1000 and get people used to the idea of content management. When you're in a big organization, there's a temptation to do things big, even if you ought to start small. That's a tough lesson to learn.

Well, it's been learnt at the Gov Office of the West Midlands ";->"

There's more here: but it's still the cluetrainy stuff that's been knocking about for ages. I guess they're just rewording it so businesses can understand it better. One day biz will blog. They'll have to. Sterile ads won't cut it and those biz who blog will reap the benefits, so the old internet adage, "if you're not on the internet by 1999, you'll be out of business" will become, "if you're not a blogging biz by 2005, you'll be out of business." I wonder just what the world will be like once ads are dead and the whole world blogs?

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"Mobile Publishing from the Anti-G8 Protests"

Mobile blogging from the front line! [Via blogs of war]

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Still busy, building the intranet for the Government Office. Nearly finished, just cleaning up the edges ready for the swap over at the weekend.

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"Powell's presentation did not persuade the U.N. Security Council, but it did help convince many Americans that Saddam was a real threat."

I'm deeply troubled over this. I was for a war to rid Iraq of WMD. Now, I'm reading that it was a PR job, a spin put on very flimsy evidence. What would happen if they cried wolf again?

Part of me thinks that Saddam's taken his poison bottles with him. The other part thinks there never was any.

Short: Blair lied to cabinet and made secret war pact with US
... a new dossier on which Downing Street pins its hopes will be produced by US intelligence and weapons inspection teams.

Hmmm... So, a dossier saying that he had WMD is going to be spun up to cover the fact that there hasn't been any found? Are we that gullible?

Five steps to the world according to Bush
The British intelligence source said the best Humint on Saddam was held by the French who had agents in Iraq.
'French intelligence was telling us that there was effectively no real evidence of a WMD programme. That's why France wanted a longer extension on the weapons inspections. The French, the Germans and the Russians all knew there were no weapons there -- and so did Blair and Bush as that's what the French told them directly. Blair ignored what the French told us and instead listened to the Americans.' [Originally from the Sunday Herald]

My world is turning upside down. Who to believe? Do I really think a public inquiry will say Bush/Blair lied to take the US/UK to war because... ? Why? Because Rumsfield wanted to do so before Bush was elected?

My only reasoning, is that 'they' wanted to take the war on terrorism to the Middle East, rather than waiting for the inevitable.

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