Nice summary by Shel Holtz of the Internal Uses Of Blogs. This jumped out at me:

I’ve been engaged in employee communication for 28 years. When I started as an employee communications representative at ARCO in 1977, we used manual typewriters, a Compugraphics typesetting machine, and our primary communication vehicle was the weekly newspaper, the ARCOspark. I’ve watched all the advances in communication and few are as exciting as blogs.

He points out some of the internal uses at corporations would be:

• Executive blogs
• Alerts
• Projects
• Departmental
• Business literacy

Colin Charles has an interesting article at the Red hat magazine on Installing Fedora Core on the Mac mini. He summarizes the installation of Red Hat Fedora on the Mac mini:

A pretty swanky mini box! That’s what the Mac mini is… tiny, aesthetically pleasing, and great with Linux. Save for the wireless, where a USB dongle might suit, everything pretty much works out of the box with Fedora Core 4 Test 3.

Mini servers, anyone?

I met sportswriter Henry Abbott at the recent NYC geek dinner; he’s got a new blog called True Hoop. Looks like he’ll be blogging the NBA scene; make sure to check it out if you’re a basketball fan.

And if you ever meet Henry, make sure to ask him to tell you what it’s like to go to a bagel shop in the midwest… Good luck with the new blog, Henry!

I went to a “geek dinner” in NYC on Monday night, a get together organized by Steve Rubel and Robert Scoble, which coincided with Dave Winer‘s birthday. I posted pictures here, and some on Fickr too, other Fickr pics are here and a movie is here.
It was an enjoyable night, and there were many very smart and interesting bloggers and tech folk there; I was able to meet many of them but missed most of them. Maultasch was there and he said he hated it, and I can very much see why. There’s a huge difference between the way that, say a group of sales and marketing extroverts might get together for fun and networking, and the way that self-confessed geeks get together…
Us geeks can be shy (Michael from Hacking Netflix and a few other folks notwithstanding). Maybe we could use a little structure with an informal gathering of 50 people. Opening welcoming remarks by the organizer, a simple ice breaker of some sort, a box of stickers from Staples for us to write our names on and slap on our shirts…
Maybe some folks might think that would go against the “grassroots nature” of this type of informal gathering, but my feeling is that it would make introductions easier and help take a little of the focus off the A-lister and put a little more on the guy next to you, enabling us to make more connections with each other. Making more connections with each other being one of the things that makes blogging such a worthwhile activity…