Always cogent Technorati CEO Dave Sifry is back today with a preview of the April 2007 State of the Live Web. Stay tuned for his full write up which will be replete with charts, stats, observations and analysis. He's updated the name for his twice annual State of the Blogosphere because...

It's informative, entertaining, vexing, touching, enervating and, every once in awhile, utterly unforgettable. It is, truly, the Live Web. -- Dave Sifry

He notes in today's preview that…

Congrats to Hilary Marsh with the National Association of REALTORS and  Eric Hoffman with Park City Mountain Resort. (He's Interactive Marketing Manager. Now there's a dream job if you like to ski.) They were two of the 350-plus respondents to my Quick Survey on Blogging and Social Media Tools. Each gets a signed copy of The Corporate Blogging Book.

Results of the survey were fascinating. Most notably, 60% of respondents said corporate blogging does not need to be tied to the bottom line.

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Forget those demo CDs. Wanna submit your album for review by Sony BMG Music Entertainment UK's Columbia or RCA record labels? Set up a blog on Sony's new Vox blogging platform and attach your music and video files.

As I predicted in The Corporate Blogging Book, companies will adopt more nuanced blogging platforms as they get more comfortable with blogs as a public-facing communications strategy.

With Vox, privacy controls let you determine who sees what. Typically, this is so…