As a law firm actively engaged in working with start-ups and established enterprises to build online traffic and e-commerce websites, here's how at Lightbulb we've tracked IT developments in the last 18 months. Some of the blog and Web-related developments were noted in the most recent Technorati quarterly report discussed in the prior post, Blogs that work in the "attention economy":

• 1 August 2005 - Seminar: Smart Use of the Web, featuring Des Walsh,  one of Australia's leading Blogging Evangelists. Read his writing at Thinking Home Business or read his audio stream at the Business Blogging Show.
• 28 August 2006 - Lightbulb post: Wisdom for Commercialisation of Social Networking Websites. 
• 19 November 2006 - Lightbulb post: 7 habits of highly effective IP owners, one of those habits discussed is tagging.
• 1 October 2006 - Lightbulb post: The direction of IT is towards theatre and conversation. This features a graphic based on work in Japan in the early 1990s.
  

Wisdom for Commercialisation of Social Networking Websites ends with a section headed "How to grow social networking" which quotes a great list published in 1994 by John Coates. The discussion ignited in recent days by Tim O'Reilly about having a code of conduct for bloggers adds little to Coates' wonderfully succinct "Cyberspace innkeeping" list. That's a long article, go to the end to get to Coates' succinct list.

For legal and commercial compliance to achieve success online also read the Lightbulb post Build trust for success online in 2007 and 20 ways a blog can kill you.