The sumamry below is comical and close to conspiracy theory. The Web has been in the workplace for close to a decade; all of the sudden, blogs are making us less productive? What about those folks who have been glued to eBay all day in the office? Businesses who are concerned should just set up filtering software, not that such a move would stop most people.

About 35 million workers visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 hours of the work week engaged with them, says Advertising Age. Bottom line: "At work, people can't watch TV or prop up their feet and read a newspaper, but they sure do read blogs." Some companies have begun filtering out blogs.