51% use, 1% trust 

Journalists use blogs but don't trust them according to a survey. Journalists are five times more likely to look at blogs than other internet users. I guess they read them so they can get down to the serious business of not trusting them.

Using the instant outliner for collaboration 

Hil and I haven't played with the instant outliner much more. Maybe this weekend. I have realized one thing that I didn't understand before about how to use it for collaboration.

I've heard two complaints about the outliner: 1) that you can't edit another person's outline, and 2) that it's not clear what part of a buddy's outline has changed. I can't say what I think about the former, because I haven't given that aspect of it a workout in a real or like-real work situation.

About the other problem. This is how it goes: you hear a beep and your buddy window opens and you see a buddy's name in bold, indicating which buddy's outline has changed. You double-click on the name a couple times to refresh the buddy's outline. What's changed? You can't tell. As other testers have suggested, it really would be nice if the new or modified items were called out in some way. Maybe it's something that a developer who is looking to contribute to the project could tackle? Or is it one of those dreaded bigger kernel things? I sure don't know how to tell.

When I went back and re-read Dave's docs, though, I saw something I hadn't grasped before I started actually using the thing. I think I'm getting this right. Somebody tell me if I'm not, so I am not spreading misinformation. Your buddy sees your outline in the state in which you left it -- she sees the items you left expanded or not. So, as Dave says in the docs, you can use that to focus your buddy's attention on the part of the outline you want her to notice. Collapse everything except that one thing as a way of saying "look here, pal."

I can see how this would be more useful in one way than just putting the most recent change in bold. Especially for hyper-reviser types like me. I may want my co-worker to pay attention to some part of my outline that was not recently revised because it's what's important to the project. It may not be important at all to draw her attention to a sentence I decided on a whim to rephrase.

That was a complicated explanation. I wonder if a rough screencast would have taken less time than writing it out. Probably, if I didn't fuss over it.