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February 17, 2003

Shhhhh....point?

Via Scripting News: "Microsoft's Matt Williams compares Sharepoint to weblog tools".

Matt seems to get the wrong end of more than one stick at once (SharePoint PS is kinda big-and-punchy, and costs, where SharePoint TS is almost a great weblogging tool, and is kinda free) when he writes

a guy named Anil Dash... wrote an article back in October on why Sharepoint is a crappy weblogging tool. He goes through lots of points about why you might not want to use it for weblogs. DUDE! Sharepoint is not a weblogging tool! I am sure if we decided to write one, it would totally rock...
I'm tickled by his later entries too - sounds a lot like the sort of thing we used to say about Notes: integrated software, it'll cost ya less to run. Not untrue, mind, but I don't think that'll make many converts from (say) MovableType.

The real deal is something more like "k-logging". Weblog-style publishing as a consciously-instigated business groupware practice. Of which, more later, methinks.