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Posterity Schmosterity

John Robb thinks that k-logs (fancy word for weblogs) in the corporate environment are a good thing becuase they are archived for posterity.

While I think this a good thing for small businesses, ask Enron if they want all an employee's important communiques archived and available for subpoena, er, retrieval.

This is one reason convincing large corporations (with a dread of liability) to adopt weblogs into their corporate cultures is going to be an uphill battle.

My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.