Found this via John Robb:

Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog

I believe that the 900 or so IT employees of the State of Utah would benefit from speaking and listening to each other more. I think we need groups of specialists inside various departments to communicate with others in their specialty and without. Consequently, I’d like to see more people writing blogs and communicating their ideas through an open forum like the one blogs engender. To that end, I’m willing to pay the licensing fee to Userland for the first 100 employees who start a blog. Here are the conditions:

1. Download the software and begin using on the 30-day free trial. I’d like to see you get a start before I pay the fee. Let me know when you’re up and running.
2. I’m biased toward IT employees, but other are welcome too, particularly if they’re interested in eGovernment.
3. You’re responsible for what you post. If you’re going to talk about things that shouldn’t be public on Userland and need to be kept behind the state firewall, let me know and we’ll set up a place inside the state network for that. We could even set up an authenticated area, if needed.

Leading by example. Leading by making resources available to follow the example.

The Shifted Librarian musings about TrackBack:

And could you build a master database of these things and organize them by category? Kind of make a Social Sciences Citation Index for your site? Something like that would be extremely useful within the Illinois libraries blogosphere I want to implement.

Absolutely! That is exactly what KMpings provides a proof-of-concept for.

For example, take a thesaurus or other controlled vocabulary and a fresh MovableType blog.

Add a category to the blog for each entry of the thesaurus. Enable TrackBack pings for each category as you create them. Create an index page for each category that displays the pings sent to it.

Other MovableType users may now set up their categories to ping specific terms in the thesaurus blog thus adding relevant posts to a list of recent entries on that topic.

So, the capability is there. However, most thesaurii have dozens to hundreds of terms which quickly becomes unmanagable with the current MT interfaces. A more robust management interface is needed to scale up to a full blown thesaurus categorization for blogs posts. Since MT supports MySQL databases now, a thesaurus management interface to MT can be developed separately.

Other software, such as Radio, have to implement the ability for Radio categories to TB ping other sites for this to work. We’ll get there.

WWPP is what looks like a health care provider community of practice blog network. They are using Radio and RCS to coordinate it.

I came across this site because their combined blogs dominated the weblogs.com top 100 list last time I cruised through there.