IT Blogging Is One-Sided - Computerworld

Computerworld: News Story by Patrick Thibodeau

MAY 30, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Major IT vendors are encouraging employees to start blogs to reach out to users in new ways and help make the companies seem less impersonal. But so far, the blogging conversation is mostly one-sided.

As yet, there aren't many IT managers blogging about big-picture technology issues, based on interviews with vendors and Internet searches conducted by Computerworld.

'Clearly, vendors have much stronger pressure on them to have a relationship with the world,' said Tim Bray, director of Web technologies at Sun Microsystems Inc. But CIO blogs would get instant attention from vendors, Bray added. 'If a few of those guys started doing that, you can darn well bet that we would be reading them. I sure would,' he said.

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