Aaaaah back to blogging!

Some really interesting stuff in the blogosphere while i've been away - having scanned them, will just link now and comment later :

Thought-provoking Stuff:

I love Dave Pollard's blog - he writes across so many issues - always interesting and thought-provoking.  Some posts i've scanned and marked for further reading :

Why Innovation Happens in Waves

A Quiz - Is Your Country War-Prone?

The Post-Consumer Economy - A Model for our Future

On Blogs and Wikis:

More excellent comments on What Makes a Weblog a Weblog, including a pointer to a Russ Lipton essay. (Scripting News)

Ross Mayfield takes the discussion on wikis vs weblogs further into comparing the Individual Voice and the Group Voice

Two posts on 'Getting Up to Speed on Wikis' from Jim McGee : here and here

Stuart picks up on wikis and blikis in his post Collaborative Roadmaps.  Watch out for more from him.

On Corporate Blogging - strengthening the case for it - and discussions on tools :

The Corporate Weblog Manifesto (The Scobleizer Weblog)

Chat without frontiers. The IM story keeps on growing. (iWire)

More links on Weblogs and KM from Jim McGee

David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, in his article The Truth of Weblogs weighs in on the issue of trust in corporate blogging.

Allan Karl on When Corporate Blogging is Done Right. Everyone Benefits. (May 29 ... the permalink does not seem to work).  He also starts a series of posts on Corporate Blogs :  the first one called Why does Barbie Blog : Corporate Weblog Series #1.  Will be following them with interest ... while looking for stories from Indian shores!

Between Bloggers and their Employers at Lilia's blog : A lot of thinking about problems that could happen between bloggers and their employers by Joshua Allen [via Serious Instructional Technology]

On Ryze Changes :

My views here.  Stuart (see the comments too) and Ross at the Many to Many blog discuss them further.

Some Cool Stuff :

The Geek Test : and no .. am not publishing my result!

Sona Matchmaker : An Indian Friendster : thanks Marc.  'Matrimonials' form a huge part of our daily newspapers ... and many of our leading dailies devote entire supplements to them. Its also a tremendous business here ... with the matchmakers raking it in. Today's kids want to DIY ... i suspect Sona Matchmaker would be a terrific success here!

More links from Marc ... he always has some really cool stuff at his blog ... i blogged Teen Tribes ... he found more - Taste Tribes and Speed Tribes.

Phew !  Now onto reading ....