Like General Motors, Cisco blogs a deal

Like a lot of other folks, we followed the twists and turns in the saga of General Motors Co. and its Adam Opel GmbH unit partly through the blog postings of John Smith, GM group vice president for Europe and lead negotiator on the planned divestiture. Having noted the unusual phenomenon of Smith's social-media updates in our own blogs, on Oct. 26 we published a more ambitious story on them by...