Gates backs blogs for businesses

BBC NEWS | Technology: "Blogs are good for business, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said. He said blogs had advantages over other, older ways of communicating such as e-mail and websites. More than 700 Microsoft employees are already using blogs to keep people up to date with their projects.

The speech covered mobile phones, new wireless technologies, RFID, digital cameras and broadband, as well as all the uses such things can be put to."