Shel Israel the author of Naked Conversations jumps in today after last night's drama to add some good clarifying points on what the book actually said when it tried to define blogs.  

A few snippets...

Scoble gets into more blogging tussles than I do.  He's also a lot more gracious about it than I am in most cases. The current one is about the definition of a blog began here and seemingly will end here.

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While it may be resolved in the blog battles, I think I should clear up what Naked Conversations did or did not say regarding the definition of a blog.

However, in numerous places throughout the book, we recognized private blogs and internal blogs. In our interview with Mena Trott, she told us that a majority of Six Apart blogs were private and password protected. We also talked about nearly interviewing Intel CEO Paul Otellini who has an internal blog that goes to 86,000 employees about once weekly.  When he declined, we accepted as valid his defense that, "after all a private blog is private. We also commented that IBM may have the most internal blogs of any company--which has its own irony since the second option for such kinds of communications would be IBM's Lotusnotes.

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At no point, do I recall Robert or I ever debating whether non-public blogs were not really blogs.  We didn't even consider it.

Sorry, partner, I just can't join you at the hip on this one.

Read on.

Since last night Robert has posted a bit of a mea culpa about the whole ordeal.  Nice to see the quick turn around.  Someone on Channel 9 characterized this as a "spat" between Robert and I which I thought was humorous.   The funny thing is that when Robert worked for me we had these disagreements all the time.  I think that's a good thing and what a sad world it would be if we all agreed, all the time.  Now that Robert has left Microsoft some of our disagreements will most likely happen out in the open.  :-)

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