Sun CEO Wants to Blog Freely

From latimes.com

I think that this is a sign of how far and important blogging has come in the tech community and I believe is a trend that will continue in other sectors as well.

The tech firm’s chief asks the SEC to tweak disclosure rules so he can break company news in his online diary.

Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz has asked U.S. regulators to relax corporate disclosure rules so he can announce company news on his personal blog.

“If we have material news to disclose, we have to hold an anachronistic telephone conference call or issue an equivalently anachronistic press release,” Schwartz wrote in his online diary Monday. “I would argue that none of those routes are as accessible to the general public as a blog, or Sun’s website.”

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