May 31, 2005

Blogging the Blogging Revolution

The WSJ has a story today on the growing number of corporations that are hiring bloggers. ITWorld.com, meanwhile, reports that podcasting is emerging as "an ebusiness tool" as "commercial web sites are already using podcasting in dozens of ways, ranging from sponsored podcasts, podcast 'edutainment', corporate communications and as a promotional tool." And E-Commerce News today says, "Blogging has arrived as a force on the Internet, not only for political discourse and personal ramblings but increasingly as a potentially powerful business tool."

I've been doing a little blog consulting work lately with corporations, with media/marketing/PR companies (companies in what I call the "message industry") and possibly a political candidate or two and expect to do more of that in the future.

Meanwhile, Iranian blogging pioneer Hossein Derakshan, recently appearing at the BlogNashville conference, is getting some ink and pixels these days, in Wired and also Newsweek and Lefty political journal The Nation.