Another good reason to be careful what you write on-line.  If all blogs
are collected for analysis, no telling what or how it might be used in
the future.  Using corporate blogs to discuss research and development
activities or innocently discussing your reaction to a particular vendor
or product could result in inconvenience and aggravation or even legal
repercussions. 

 

Rising gas prices fire up bloggers

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/06/22/blogs.gasprices/index.html

 

Editor's note: Umbria Communications collects and analyzes postings from
millions of weblogs to find out what is being discussed in the
blogosphere and who is engaging in discussion. 

 

Umbria President Howard Kaushansky said his company collects millions of
published blog post in a data warehouse, so that the company's analysts
can look for trends.

 

 

Ginny Jones 
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI) 
Records Manager 
Information Technology Division 
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities 
Newport News, VA 
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