DIA users are getting a happy -- we hope -- surprise this week in the form of a cleaned-up headquarters interface.

If you're paying your first blog visit via the headquarters link, come on in, have a drink (drinks are a specialty here). Go ahead and use this thread to weigh in on the headquarters changes, or anything else on your mind.

Might want to check if the boss is watching, though. Free registration is required for this managerial freak-out starring wasted time on blogs as the iceberg lurking in the gloomy deep at the Republic's waterline. Representative excerpt:

About 35 million workers -- one in four people in the labor force --
visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 hours, or 9%, of the work week
engaged with them, according to Advertising Age's analysis. Time
spent in the office on non-work blogs this year will take up the
equivalent of 2.3 million jobs. Forget lunch breaks -- blog readers
essentially take a daily 40-minute blog break.

More evidence that whatever there is to get about blogs isn't being gotten by Man: Forbes' amusing Blogs 101 primer for clueless companies, including strategies for retaliating against bad pub in blogosphere that any blogswarmer would be lucky to see deployed. (Link goes to AmericaBlog's deconstruction.)

Update:  More evidence of the From-Mars, From-Venus act at the BlogOn Conference.