Been meaning to post this. I love the way Seth Godin writes. He inspires me to... just say it. Take out all those clauses and that clutter.

From the intro to his new e-book: "This is not a faq and it's not the blogging bible and it's incomplete... " Of course he packs plenty into 45 pages.

Interestingly, (for those of you out there wondering what to do with all that stuff you write in your blog) he pulls a fair amount of this e-book straight out of his blog. As well he should. A blog is…

"Once you start blogging, can you ever stop?" asks prolific blogger Zane Safrit, CEO of Conference Calls Unlimited. To be precise, he didn't say those exact words during our podcast [click to download the MP3 or listen]. But it's a great question. Zane, my advice to you is: "Don't stop."  You're good and getting better all the time.

He blogs about current events, the economy, outsourcing, health insurance and other stuff. Oh, and he just blogged about our podcast here.

Zane is in fact kind of zany, defined as "amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic."…

Corporate blogging is all well and good. But this is cool. Reporters Without Borders, an organization modeling itself on Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), has published an 86-page guide advising cyber-dissidents on how to set up a blog, maintain anonymity in the face of repressive governments, etc. Download the guide and read more about it here. Includes accounts from dissident bloggers in Bahrain, Iran and Nepal. Thanks to Guillaume du Gardier for the link.

Head on over to Global PR Blog Week 2.0 (Sept. 19 - 23, 2005) for a rich taste of what's going on in the intersecting world of blogs, public relations and business communications. I've been too tied up writing The Corporate Blogging Book to have contributed an article. Lazy me... but I was honored to be a "reviewer" for several of the articles submitted. This event / blog / knowledge site is the brainchild of the prodigiously productive Constantin Basturea. Romania-based Constantin is the guy behind The NewPR Wiki, which has a ton of resources related to business blogging.

Several…

Just stumbled across Google Answers. It looks cool. You type in your question, post a "bid" (i.e. pay a small fee), and then sit back and wait for one of Google's independent researchers to give you an answer. Obviously, the more you pay the quicker you get an answer. I just posted a question: What are the specific lawsuits filed thus far against bloggers? I know about two cases but don't want to miss any others.

Oh, and if you're reading this and have information about lawsuits and blogging, please leave it in the Comments below!

Posted earlier to my BlogWrite for CEOs blog: Lawsuits against bloggers are starting to pop up.

Could it be?? Yes, I think we're there. It's the second wave of corporate blogging. Things are starting to shake out. It's our first peek at the ugly underbelly...  Turns out our window into the new transparent Microsoft via 2,000 employee blogs gives us a view that isn't all, shall we say, a bed of roses.

Read about Microsoft at middle age here in BusinessWeek's Sept. 26, 2005 cover story. Read BW's sidebar: A Rendezvous With Microsoft's Deep Throat. Then dive straight into the source of the story: Mini-Microsoft, the blog by an anonymous Microsoft…