I've been hosting people at work on BlogX... well, actually that wasn't really my intention to begin. At first I just wanted to start blogging myself. I grabbed a great computer name and setup my site... after a while a few people asked to be hosted there also... I never really "advertised", but over the last 5 days I'm up to around 15 people hosting their blogs on my server. Most are using BlogX as their software.

In response to Rob, I'll at least defend BlogX as a real blogging solution. I have RSS, permalinks, thin client front end, and smart client editor. I know there is a site of "blogs" internally that doesn't have RSS or permalinks (don't know what their editor is - don't care <G>)... that site doesn't host blogs.

I won't claim to be a blog expert - hell, a couple months ago I didn't know what they were - but I think that RSS and permalinks are a pretty core part of the infrastructure.

Anyway... blogging inside of Microsoft is still new... very new. With all our other mechanisms for communicating - mail, distribution lists, exchange public folders, sharepoint, web sites, instant messenger, and now blogs - it takes time for a new medium to get to a level of understanding so people can use it effectively. Yes, I'm sure there are people out there who will scream "Blogging has been around forever! What is taking you so long!?!?"...