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A group of policemen climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro are documenting the ascent via audioblog. The Climbing Blog is being updated via satellite phone call to an audioblogging service that converts the call to the MP3 format and uploads it automatically to the site. The climb was undertaken under the auspices of a charity called Cops on Top as a memorial to…

The days of students proclaiming that the dog ate their homework may be on their way out. Instead of find excuses for not doing homework, students in Stacey O’Donnell’s high school English class are overwhelming her with the volume of writing they’re producing. The difference: They’re doing their homework via their blogs.

According to an item in New York’s Journal News, blogs have helped inspire…

This was the weekend.

Thousands of PeopleSoft employees—along with some Oracle employees—were due to get pink slips at home over the weekend, the natural consequence of a takeover. I’m waiting to hear if any of the folks I know at PeopleSoft have been affected. Some of them have been LinkedIn members for a while, an affiliation that may pay dividends as they use the…

Danny Bradbury writes in Canada’s National Post that CEOs of Canadian companies aren’t jumping on the CEO blogging bandwagon.

Lists of chief executive bloggers…show there are many more in the United States than in Canada. David Schatsky, senior vice-president of research at Darien, Conn.-based Jupiter Research, discovered this while speaking at a Web content management conference in Quebec. “I asked a room of 50 people how…

It’s not unusual for journalists to have blogs these days. But don’t expect to see those journalists use their blogs to scoop the publications that pay them. Wired News talks with several journalist bloggers about the competing interests of their blogs and their publishers, and how a paying job as a journalist affects the approach they take to their blogs.

Michael Angeles was supposed to make a presentation on intranet-based project-focused blogs at an intranet/wiki conference slated for Miami next month. The conference was cancelled, so Angeles, a Lucent Technologies IT staffer, posted the presentation as a 777 KB Acrobat PDF file. The presentation covers a lot of ground that can be useful to others planning to pitch internal blogs…

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