There is a new(ish) corante blog, Strange Attractor. (I came across is a couple of weeks ago but only now got round to mentioning it.)

There is much blogging goodness there, for example, here:

We heard quite a bit about blogs in the knowledge management sphere - how companies are starting to use blogs and other social tools to help them gather information that’s currently locked up inside their employee’s heads and to bring new information to people’s attention. Blogs are also being used in project management as a way of building teams and encouraging constructive risk taking and collaboration.

And this bit, which particularly 'resonates' with us:

Many of those working in this area are having to deal with the fact that the majority of people just don't know what blogs are, so there’s a large amount of persuading and evangelising to be done in order to get users to accept these tools. Ninety per cent of the work is educating people and changing their existing mindset so that they can learn how to get the most out of blogging.

Suw Charman plans to delve more deeply into some very interesting topics, so watch her space. I like the following:

• Blogs are oral communications in a written format. What implications does this have for those of us working in this area professionally? How can this format be adapted to business use and how will businesses need to adapt in order to make best use of the blog format?
• Forming networks. Blogs are invaluable as networking tools, but they don’t work well in isolation. What other tools are required to make the best of blog networking opportunities and what are the emergent behaviours amongst users?
• Categorisation. It is too easy to lump all blogs together under one, ill-fitting umbrella, and extend conclusions from one small subsection of the blogosphere to the whole thing. How can we categorise the blogosphere and where do common generalisations fall down or turn into misconceptions?

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