Bill Gates Launches Blog and Twitter Page

   
Bill Gates has launched this week his first personal blog.

It is called The Gates Notes, and it comes one day after the founder of Microsoft entered the world of Twitter. 

More than a traditional blog, it seems to me that The Gates Notes is an online forum. There Bill Gates will share, several times a week, his thoughts on the Gates Foundation and his personal interests in global health, education, energy and the climate. 

"His site is a collection of conversations, books, articles and opinions from people who have inspired and informed Bill," says a spokesman for Gates. 

In his welcome letter, Gates writes: "I take a lot of notes, and often share them and my own thoughts on the subject with others through email, so I can learn from them and expand the conversation."

"I thought it would be interesting to share these conversations more widely with a website, in the hope of getting more people thinking and learning about the issues I think are interesting and important."