Getting a fat blogging client on the corporate desktop has been a barrier to klogging (workplace blogging)Newsreaders. Better editing tools (things like more word processing features, light picture cleanup). And so on.

Google is there now. A year or two before Microsoft.

The Google Toolbar beta includes a BlogThis button. If you have a Blogger weblog, you can post to it. In the future, I expect Google to open it up to other blogging tools that support common protocols (like the Blogger, MetaWeblog, Blogger2, XML-RPC APIs). If you don't have a blog, it invites you to start one at Blogger.

No big deal in the general world (aside from leveraging Google's omnipresence into new Blogger customers).

A huge deal in enterprise IT departments.

You can see the package from a Google sales rep:

• Search appliance.
• Weblog appliance.
• Google toolbar.

All customized from the same administrative console.

Making it very easy to roll out. For instance, new bloggers could be directed to the company blog server instead of the one operated by Google.

I asked UserLand for a blogging toolbar a long time ago. They didn't see a way to make it cross platform (their strong commitment at the time) so passed on that.

The closer you tie reading and writing the web, the more natural it will feel to blog. I can just see the chasm being crossed.

[a klog apart klogs]