in spite of this deeply disturbing video from Scott and Rory . This makes me yearn for the old days when Don Box gave SOAP talks while in a bathtub.

I'll be taking a parental leave for the next few weeks. Blogging and e-mail will be light, and I'm looking forward to it. :)

Inspired by an article that I read a few days ago focused on the social elements of folksonomies, I posted some thoughts here on how folksonomies and improving search technologies can improve our ability to organize information on the web.

New blogs up at http://blogs.technet.com , check them out.

Check out the MyLifeBits video on Channel9 , featuring Roger Lueder. For a full listing of the Bay Area Microsoft Research videos, including the excellent Jim Gray material, go here .

I read "The Blog Cycle" tonight and found it to be very insightful (and humorous) . I wonder how these ideas apply to MSDN Blogs?

I picked up a Channel 9 guy while in Redmond last week . Here's some more evidence that geeks of all ages love Channel 9 .

Brad Wilson (aka The .NET Guy) has decided to join Microsoft . It is definitely our gain, and I look forward to seeing him in Redmond.

Good comments from SBC on the culture of collaboration , especially in light of the news surrounding Microsoft and Groove .

Two of the coolest people I've never met have a fun promo video for TechEd . Check it out.

Note to Dave Winer- I work for Microsoft, and I'm not scared of users . In fact I take every chance that I can get to talk to users and understand their problems. And I know that many of my coworkers do the same thing.

More interesting discussions tonight at the Pub Summit . I spent time speaking with Robert and Gary on how blogging can affect your career. We also discussed general industry topics including MS growth opportunities, Google's position, etc. It was great...

I have a lot of respect for Don and for his comments on the VB6 debates . I think his stance is a bit tough, but you can't argue that there has been plenty of time to prepare for this transition. I hope that we can find a good way to satisfy some of the...

Cast your vote here for the BOF sessions you're interested in. Keith Brown's proposed sessions looks like a good one to me, as do many others.

Via Channel9 , a nice tour of Microsoft Research's Bay Area facility.

I ran across this article form CMSWire that focuses on blogs and wikis as enterprise applications. Blogs and wikis are seen as unique types of content management solutions, but I think that if you looked at the feature set of any mature content management...

Check out the Connected Systems Business Kit - I actually highlighted this as part of my discussion at the Publisher's Summit today. Props to Aaron and friends for their contributions to this.

"XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it."

Say the title of this post three times fast. I met with a couple of great guys in the partner community at the summit today, Jeff Julian and John Alexander . I've known Jeff through the blogosphere for some time, but finally had the pleasure of speaking...

I had a chance to chat with Raymond for a while earlier today while at the Publisher's Summit. It was a great discussion, covering everything from the state of IT and our customers' challenges to the personalities of the various book publishing companies...

I'm in Redmond to speak at an event this week . If anyone is interested in getting together, please drop me a comment or send me a note (alias randyhol) and we can set something up.