The weblog for Putting Family First (AKA Family Life 1st) is now up. I’m currently coaching several board members on the process for posting.

I had coffee with Doc when he was in town to give a speech last week.

This article in Wired profiles the use of weblogs by Macromedia product managers for customers.

Note the informal weblog cluster that includes a developer/customer: “Hall has his own blog, and he often links to the Macromedia blogs, and they link to him, and others link to all of them — creating a community of [...]

I received confirmation yesterday on contracts to set up group weblogs for two organizations: one a non-profit, the other a professional services group. I’ll post links as soon as I have them up. Interest in organzational blogs is building: I have 6 other weblog proposals waiting action.

I’ll be working with the Metropolitan Council again [...]

The Weblog Tool Roundup in HotWired’s WebMonkey.

The New York Times has a blog piece today titled, At Large in the Blogosphere.
“Blogs provide a counterweight to the increasing unreality of mass journalistic culture — its quality of having been processed beyond the realm of the recognizable, its frequent tone of unearned authority. They’re the antidote to the blow-dried anchor, the unsigned [...]

Jim Cashel interviews Blogger founder and CEO Evan Williams in the current Online Community Report. Good to see that “blog clusters” are part of the future development:

At Blogger, we’re working on a bunch of features under the umbrella of “networked publishing.” Essentially, these are about leveraging the network of blogs and blog readers — [...]

Since I’ve begun working with several organizations to start using weblogs as a complementary tool on their web sites, it only seemed appropriate for me to use one here.