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Suw Charman is a great and talented writer.

Combine this with the news that she has just completed a case study which looks at the use of blogs behind the firewall in a European pharmaceutical company -- and hot-diggity-damn!, git yer lazy asses over there and read it, yo good for nuthin' bunch a critters. Go on, git!

Mind now, I hear it's got them complicated squiggly little word things in it, but don't let that spoil the ho-down cos there are some purty little pictures in it too - hot damn! - the purty pictures also contain some squiggly word things n'all. Lord, why is you making it so hard on a good ol' boy?

(For some reason there, I seemed to slip into the persona of a cowboy, sorry bout that. [Spits on floor] )

Inverted Bubble

I suppose that but for the fact 'journalists' are outspoken about things by trade, and mostly of the opinion that 'news' is typically about differences and negative differences make for better news, I doubt we'd hear the ongoing and interminable collective grunting about 'blogging vs. journalism'.

Six or seven years ago when the notion of commercial endeavours on the web became all the rage, you'd hear nothing but positive things about the future of business in this new medium from, pretty much, every stakeholder on the planet. In fact, that swell go so ahead of itself it turned into the infamous 'bubble'.

The blogging wave could'nt be further from that.

Of Late

My blogging demeanour has become somewhat staccato lately, I've noticed. Not that I was ever a long form multi-page post blogger, rather I have always quite liked the way a short post sits neatly above the fold within my homemade template's design, as if nothing else exists below. Nor is that my main driver when it comes to posting, above the desireable aesthetic feel of a short post I'm not usually noted for my verbosity anyway, choosing to say as much as possible with as few words as I can.

I've never been quite sure where that behaviour comes from, I have countenanced a possible fear of being exposed as being less intelligent or smart the more words I write. There's certainly a higher probability that you'll discover a long-form writer is less clever than a short form blogger, there's simply more evidence at your disposal with a wordy blogger. Not that I've actually felt that way conciously, it's just something I've considered as a possible explanation for my short burst approach to blogging.

It may also be due to my inbuilt lack of patience. Patience is probably too strong a word, I'm just eager to get to the point of things and duly recognise that the art of finishing people's sentences for them is both rude and complimentary at the same time. How else can you help someone communicate more quickly if you haven't actually been intently listening to them in the first place. A technique for gaining trust I learned in my early days of selling.

Whatever, this is about the longest post I've written in months and if it may be out of character it is true to form in at least the respect that it's recursive. The MC Escher school of writing.

And on that note, I am spent.