Tim Bray (Tech Director at Sun) writes in his blog (ongoing) regarding his ever increasing role as an evangelist for blogs.
"I got an email from a salesperson, saying “We’re holding a Java architecture briefing for some senior technical staff from <insert very well-known company name>. They said that somebody upstairs at the customer asked Sun to send Bray in to talk about BLOGS. Can you do this?”"And he thought he was going to be doing a lot of work in XML -- being one of the core people that created it and all...