Gates backs blogs for businesses BBC NEWS | Technology
E-mail messages could be too imposing or miss out key people who should be included, said Mr Gates.
Websites were a problem too, he added, because they demand that people visit them regularly to find out if anything has changed and require regular updating to avoid going stale.
These problems could be solved, said Mr Gates, by using blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS), that lets people know when a favourite journal is updated.
'What blogging and these notifications are about is that you make it very easy to communicate,' he said.
'The ultimate idea is that you should get the information you want when you want it.'