The folks at NewsGator share a case study. 

Triple Point Technology has transformed the way they share information within the enterprise. From critical build and release notifications, to internal publishing and collaboration, publishing via RSS has dramatically changed their information landscape.

Michael Sippey summarizes: 

It's not really about weblogs at all, rather it's about how RSS (or whatever you want to call it) can be used to augment typical email- and web-based collaboration systems. Key points:

• Feeds are generated not only by individuals, but also by teams, and by software. They publish the output of their release management system in RSS. They've retrofitted Sharepoint to output RSS streams for watched folders.
• They're driving the posts right into their mail client (Outlook), which is where info workers seem to spend an inordinate amount of time. No need for training on a new piece of software, and power users can customize views to their heart's content.
• The subscription model is much more efficient and user-driven than internal mail archives. A couple of years ago I wrote a piece for theobvious on how I wanted Yahoo Groups for my intranet. The key thing there was (a) discovery and (b) user control over subscription. An OPML directory and user-controlled aggregator solves that problem. No more sysadmin time dealing with "hey, can you put me on this list for the next few weeks while I monitor what's going on with this project?"

If the blog/feed/echo/rss whatever thing takes off inside large organizations, and thousands of people, teams and systems inside companies like IBM or HP or Sun start blogging, there's gotta be a market for the intranet equivalent of blo.gs where users could learn of recently updated feeds they don't subscribe to, find new ones based on existing subscription lists, etc. (Question: is anyone selling software like this today? To slurp up user's OPML files and discover relationships and create an interlinked directory?)

Sippey gets it. So does Triple Point.

Dave Pollard decomposes a day in the life of an active blogger. Very focused. Much more than this flowchart. I'm going to read it twice.

While the act of posting is trivial, the other behaviors surrounding it are not. This is a great improvement over similar work written in 2001.

Good questions:

1. If Gray Davis is recalled, when does he leave office?
2. How long would a new governor serve?
3. Can Davis run on the recall ballot as a replacement candidate, too?
4. Where can candidates pick up and return their election papers?
5. What happens if Davis gets more votes than any of the candidates looking to replace him?
6. What if a replacement candidate gets more votes than Davis, but Davis still beats the recall?
7. If Gray Davis beats the recall, will the votes in the replacement election be counted and made public?
8. Would this count as a full term for a replacement candidate?
9. Do candidates have to file a statement of economic interest? When is that due?
10. When do candidates have to report their contributions?
11. Can independent voters run for governor?
12. Can candidates turn in more signatures instead of paying the $3,500 filing fee?
13. What's the most candidates who have ever been on the ballot for governor?
14. What happens if Gray Davis resigns?
15. Can the governor's wife, Sharon Davis, run to replace her husband?
16. Why can Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffington run for governor, but not for president?
17. If I vote to keep Davis as governor, can I still vote in the replacement election?
18. If I don't vote in the recall half of the ballot, can I still vote on a replacement?
19. In what order will the replacement candidates appear on the ballot? Will they be separated by party?
20. If Davis survives a recall, when could another recall effort be started?
21. If Davis is recalled, when could a recall effort start against the new governor?
22. How many signatures would be required for a post-Davis recall? Would it be based on turnout at the recall election?
23. Can a former governor run to replace Davis?

Answers.

From Sacramento Bee California Insider columnist Daniel Weintraub:

I know most of the people who read this blog know this, but I want to repeat for newcomers that Gray Davis cannot run to succeed himself. Davis and Pete Wilson, who served the maximum two terms from 1991-98, are the only two registered voters ineligible to run in the "race to replace." By the way, this is the number one question I am getting, which suggests that we still have a ways to go before folks understand how all this will go down....

Whom should the dems put in play?

Another blogger babe hits the campaign trail. In 2002 it was for the U.S. Senate. This time for mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina. Go for it, Tara Sue.

For about $12,000 you can run a 4" x 5" ad in the business section of the San Jose Mercury News every day for a month, reaching about going to 350,000 households each day, perhaps being read by the same 1.3 million people (9.2 cents per thousand). Or, for about $6,500, you can run a larger ad that goes to 20 million households (3.3 cpm). That's right: advertise yourself in the upcoming recall election. Run on the "Better Tantric Sex" slate or the "A vote for me is a vote for the crunchiest chicken wings in Alameda county" platform.

We're talking recall marketing folks. The opportunity of a lifetime. Your name in every registered household. We'll even throw in a head shot. Postage paid.

Just be sure to register Republican. You don't want your brand associate with Davis, after all.

I'll be glad to help you set up your campaign weblog. "Write me" or leave a comment.

Seb remarks on stages of social networking, building on Robert Patterson's, Matt's, and Paolo's hitting a one year wall. 

I think August should be the time for blogger holidays. Dave Weinberger's idea. Take a week off without blogging. Take two or three. You'll feel those blogging reflexes working like phantom limbs. Walking down the street you'll see something fascinating and reach for the BlogThis or RadioExpress button. You'll be in an engrossing conversation and feel your fingers fidget for the Google toolbar. You'll find yourself asking the grocery clerk for her RSS feed.

After a while you need to detox and shake off those blogging habits. You'll come back fresh, renewed.

You may blog differently. This is a chance to retune, so your blogging reflexes are triggered by the right things. Or that you blog more on purpose, exercising more conscious direction over your utterances.

If you don't, you may burn out. And that would be a shame.

P.S. I have TiVo reflexes too. In conversation, I want to hit the 7 seconds back button. Want to put a kiss on pause. Want to fast forward through a commute.

P.P.S. Does blogging get you laid? 

P.P.P.S. Don't Blog

P.P.P.P.S. A day of silence with my rock