Their assuming that everyone is savvy on what a blog entails is sort of out of touch, I’d think, and they’d do well to assist their “ambassadors” in developing a blog that does have the functions mentioned above. When someone spends most of their time on the road, they probably aren’t really interested in figuring out the ins and outs of a good blog.

On the other hand, perhaps the vendors don’t really want those features in the individual blogs, because then it can remove them from the end user’s view….