More on Billg's blog talk

A bunch more folks have been talking about Microsoft, Billg and blogging (see previous entry on Whether MSFT is late to the blog party). Here are some of them:

Bill on Blogs :: jr conlin's Ink Stained Banana Ink stained banana wonders if this is a harbinger of more boring things to come. He wishes that companies would take blogs seriously as real tools, but is concerned that all we will get is corporate blogs “where anonymous corporate mouthpieces shill out the same sort of stuff that goes to Business Wire.” The unsanctioned blogs will always be more interesting and reflective of the reality of companies.

Portention's entry has a pretty contentious discussion. To billg’s comments "What blogging and these notifications are about is that you make it very easy to communicate... The ultimate idea is that you should get the information you want when you want it." Neil Art basically say’s “Duh.” He also wonders whether Microsoft is going to build or buy blog-related software, and if so from whom?

Trevor Cook basically notes that despite the kinda obvious stuff Billg said, it really does seem that something can't be taken seriously on the Internet as a business topic until the guy from Redmond signals his interest.

Marcie Robillard (aka Datagrid Girl) wonders why Steveb and Billg still don’t have blogs of their own. “Even to pull an Eric Rudder and only post once per quarter would be HUGE coming from these two guys.” She notes that we really want to hear what they have to say “At a minimum, please consider offering the speech transcripts as an RSS feed... Why not put your billions where your mouth is?”

Finally Dadblog is actually happy that Bill Gates is explaining "in language CEOs understand why blogging and RSS could equal a cool information dissemination tool."

Again, late to the party maybe, but interesting to watch for sure. If if makes blogging more accessable to more people, then all the better. In my humble opinion.