Over the past week or two, IBM has announced a couple of progressive items such as encouraging their employees to blog, as well as beginning to support Firefox in-house. Granted blogging has been around for at least 6 years now, but it’s good to see a large corporation supporting both open standards and open communication.

I think one of the biggest things they’ve done in years is throw their weight behind Linux, and it seems like it’s helped build them some momentum to moving towards a kinder, gentler IBM.