Mike Asks: "Question
for Chris, Don,
and the other blogging
Microsofties out there: What's the difference between your internal blog
server and an Exchange public folder? Why would internal weblogs be read more, by
more people? Haven't you had internal-weblog-like functionality for years in the form
of Exchange public folders?"
Off the top of my head:
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URL for arcticles. Although you can create some form of shortcut for a posting, it
doesn't really work
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Searchability. Even with a non-google based search engine, I can search the entire
Microsoft intranet faster than I can search my personal Exchange mailbox... let alone
all the public folders
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Newsgroup vs. Blog... all the arguments that have been made about the delta between
a newsgroup and a blog apply for a PF vs. Blog.
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Linking... HTML lets me link to other interesting things... yes, you can do this in
an email - but it launches another window, etc, - it is very disruptive.
I'll try to think of some more...