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Original Post: The Wall Street Journal on the Power of Blogging, the Power of Scoble and My Spot Watch
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Hey, look at this! An article
in the Wall Street Journal with "RSS," "Scoble," "SPOT Watch," "Diabetic," "Corillian,"
"Hanselman," and "Blog" all in the same paragraph. That's a hell of a thing,
eh?
Regarding RSS:
The technology also has helped some enterprises keep in touch with customers.
Scott Hanselman, an executive at Corillian Corp., a provider of financial-services
software, bought a SpotWatch -- a wristwatch that receives radio waves to alert him
whenever there's a company meeting coming up, and when he needs an insulin boost.
(He is a diabetic.) But a bug in his watch, which uses Microsoft technology, halted
the flow of messages, and Mr. Hanselman wrote about it on his Web log. Robert Scoble,
who holds the title of technology evangelist at Microsoft and who scans 1,400 sites
daily with RSS, spotted the blog posting and forwarded the complaints to Chris Schneider,
senior program manager at Microsoft's Spot team, who was able to transmit a fix for
the bug less than eight hours after Mr. Hanselman first encountered it. [WSJ
on RSS]