Thursday, October 27, 2005

Battle against blogs

Corporate America is taking an anti-blog stand, so say industry insiders. Companies are using security filters to block access to blog sites, content scanners block and blacklist a range of IP addresses from games to anything they do not like.

But what's the point. Really! Is it for fear of business competition, higher security, privacy, regulatory needs for diligence or plain stupid command and control tactics, a hangover of yesterday's industrial practices that some companies are stuck with. Well, there will be no shortage of conspiracy theories.

The availability and use of technology is making it difficult for the 'top down approach' to deliver the best results in business. The way forward cannot be to stifle creativity and potential for growth both in industry and human resources.

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