In Tearing Down Walls on Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog, Schwartz writes that IBM has decided “to permit company employees to blog.” Jonathan Schwartz is president and chief operating officer for Sun Microsystems. That was only one wall that was torn down: The headline is about the forging of a business relationship between Sun and Microsoft.

Schwartz provides a link to the Sun Policy on Public Discourse, which he encourages IBM employees to use as a guide. Since blogging is increasing among librarians who are acting as employees, these guidelines may be of interest to libraries and professional information organizations.