For anyone interested in how the blogosphere is developing beyond (as well as in) the USA, there is a new, freely downloadable and thoroughly absorbing report out, courtesy of Edelman, A Corporate Guide to the Global Blogosphere. The report draws on the Edelman Omnibus Blog Survey conducted by Edelman’s “independent research company, Strategy One”. Countries surveyed were Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.
I’m only half way through the report but will be studying it closely. My first impression is that, in line with the report’s title, it is a “(corporate) guide …read more

In a previous post I made a passing reference to the Fortune 500 Blog Project, described on the wiki as follows:
The Fortune 500 Blog Project is an independent, volunteer-driven project to identify and evaluate public-facing corporate blogs owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies. Secondary purposes of this project include finding out to what degree Fortune 500 companies are using internal corporate blogs, and highlighting blogs that discuss Fortune 500 companies.
This ambitious project is maintained by two people who, judging by their blog posts, probably qualify as among the busiest people I know or know of, Easton Ellsworth of Business Blog …read more

Wow! The b5media blogging network has just launched six new blogs in the business channel and brought into the channel three other blogs from the broader network. That makes sixteen blogs in all (including this one) in the channel. And there are evidently more on the way.