Plogs
The Virtues of Chitchat (in the recent CIO magazine) discusses project logs, or plogs — weblogs that track a project's progress, obstacles, etc.:
Indeed, most of us so loathe traditional IT's 'mushroom management' techniques (keep them in the dark and throw manure on them) that the notion of plogs that either complement or supplement more formal communication has a certain appeal. [...] From a managerial perspective, I can hardly think of a better way to get new members of an IT team contextually grounded than to give them plogs to peruse, rather than make them read the outdated project sheets or suffer through a hasty luncheon debrief by the current project leadership.