BlogPotomac will be held on June 13, 2008 in Falls Church, VA.

Jon Williams has added a nice brief argument for why CTO’s should keep an eye on Facebook:

There are 1,000s of developers (or more) developing applications for Facebook, and you can try all of them out. Facebook is truly a technology marvel. If your not checking out Facebook, you may really be missing something.

Lena West has written a nice summary of how corporations can dip their toes into the world of social media.

“Our audience is online. They’re having discussions about us and about our competitors, and they’re talking about the marketplace. It may be good, and it may be bad, but it’s important for us to pay attention to what’s being said out there.” - Scott Anderson, HP’s director of enterprise brand communications.

The del.icio.us blog announces they have been purchased by Yahoo! Although this is a great validation of the dynamics in the two-way web, it will be interesting to see if Yahoo! can execute better than they have so far with their previous acquisition of flickr.

eWeek.com ran an article (Trend Micro: RSS Is Worm Bot’s Next Target) yesterday covering Trend Micro’s warning about worm bot’s exploiting RSS aggregators. What is curious is that this is old news. So why is Trend Micro bringing this up now? Did they need some press or were they just trying to catch a ride […]

This is the watershed moment for blogs.

The Mercury News has written an article (registration required) on how marketer’s are trying to mine blogs to determine the amount of buzz circulating their products are receiving in blogsphere. One specific example is a new piece of software called blabble which scours the Internet to see what bloggers are saying about a particular product.

Sun Microsystems has hired Dave Johnson, the creator of Roller. Sun intends to bring the Roller blogging technology into its enterprise communication software.

Cheryl Gidley of iMediaConnection continues her blogging exploration by looking into the legal aspects of blogging and what items you need to consider.

iMediaConnection gives some reasons you should and reasons you shouldn’t — depending on your marketing communications strategy.

There’s good news and bad news: Wired reports that the venture capitalists like RSS.

Robyn Aber has written a nice article for Entrepreneur magazine that gives an overall description of blogging and how it can fit into the corporate world.

The Washington Times asks, “What’s all the blog about?”

Michael Singer of the InternetNews suggests that blogs may endanger marketing & PR departments.

InfoWorld’s Chad Dickerson has dicovered that he can use blogs for uses such as ToDo’s.

CNN says that business blogging is going mainstream.

The Microsoft hype machine has really kicked-in promoting Microsoft bloggers. Wired magazine has made another contribution to their efforts covering Microsoft as well as the BlogOn conference.

From our hometown newspaper, this article (registration required) written by Tricia Bishop gives another rundown on the basics of blogging and RSS. I am only noting it here because it further demonstrates that blogging is becoming mainstream with more and more news coverage, and it is in our local paper.

In this article from the Personal Technology section of the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Weber gives a nice rundown on how blogs work and how to utilize them.