Rachel Osterman writes that communicating through online diaries is becoming more popular.

"Not an hour goes by here in which someone isn't interacting with blogs," said Jim Coudal, president of Coudal Partners, a small Chicago advertising firm that has embraced the technology. "It's an effective, simple repository of information that saves keeping track of a bunch of e-mails on Outlook Express and figuring out who to carbon-copy."

Extranet blogs...

In addition to internal blogging, Coudal helps clients take advantage of the software. The firm designed a Web site for the United Center that allows workers there - and not employees at Coudal Partners - to update the page with new information using a blog.

"The United Center is jammed packed with information," Coudal said. "And it would be extremely inefficient for them and for us if to update it they needed us to do it."

And Traction sales are up.

Though no single industry has used blogging most, Frank said demand for the technology tends to come from people whose jobs put them at the center of office communications.

"Just like when word processing was first developed it was used by secretaries, we see that blogging is focused around jobs," he said. "Projects jobs, intelligence jobs, for instance."

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First, if you use Radio or manila with post title links, as I do, MyYahoo!'s RSS reader considers them the post permalink.

Usenet as Prelude to Blog. - Sep 4 7:43pm Steffanie , this is for you. How did Usenet anticipate blogging? Place. Usenet preceded the web in establishing a Weinbergerian  sense of place , a commons. Blogs create places too. Immedia...

Dave is thinking small (for a change). - Sep 5 7:43pm Dave Winers  Tips for Candidates re Weblogs is handy. But its just advice on gaming/joining the blogosphere. It will become standard political tradecraft, but it falls short of changing...

Tonight: Film Industry Meetup, 8pm. - Sep 6 7:43pm Film Industry . My local TypePad , MetaFilter , and Edwards in 2004 meetups were cancelled; too few signups. This is about mediablog literacy . Im not a videographer. But I have a cheap webcam, vide...

Atom WeblogLifeCycleAPI? - Sep 7 7:43pm Should there be blog lifecycle capability built into the Atom API? For example, Create a new weblog Freeze, retire, suspend a weblog Merge weblogs x, y, and z Delete a weblog Copy or move...

Second, it sticks a space before commas and periods, but only sometimes.

Third, it isn't updating.

Fourth, I can no longer access the blog component editor.

Fifth, the dates seem to be wrong. One is even listed a week in the future.

Wassup?

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