I like Maura Welsh's Business Intelligence column. It's very blog-like, with interesting little blurbs that whet your appetite for more, like this one, or this.

Wait, no links? As the above paragraph illustrates, blog-style writing doesn't really work without links, especially out-links. Welsh's lead blurb is about a survey of IT people who snoop into company files. Here it is:

PC Pro
A new survey finds that one-third of information technology staffers ‘‘take advantage of their position to look through private files, wage data, personal e-mails, and HR details.’’ They claim it’s simply human nature. They ask: ‘‘Why does it surprise you that so many of us snoop around your files; wouldn’t you if you had secret access to anything you can get your hands on?’’

My continuing gripe is that in the absence of links, at least give us some information, you know, like about the survey (which was conducted by Newton based company Cyber Ark and invloved more than 200 IT professionals.) The PC Pro reference should take you here.

But I'd much rather link to Welch's blurb linking to the survey, at least with a "via". Unfortunately there are no perma-links either.