Below are two items I found in my surfing today. The top item is from David Weinberger's weblog, a well-known journalist in the KM space and the bottom item is from Fast Company, a magazine dedicated to new management and leadership issues surrounding fast growing companies.
 
As an avid users of blogs, it is obvious that blogs are a fantastic tool for social dialog, communication and collaboration. It is not just a toolfor individuals, but for groups too. I am surprised that this capability is not more obvious.
 
From David Weinberger:
 
There's a niche in the blogging/media ecosystem I hope someone fills.

Aggregators are wonderful, but I find using them makes me as lonely as a night watchman making his rounds.

So, between the solipsism of aggregators and the impersonalism of mainstream newspapers, I'd like a site where my friends and I can read stuff together. We suggest blogs and sites, and the aggregator surfaces the hot posts based on clever metrics and heuristics (mumble mumble handwaving). And we get to comment and annotate for one another.

That last point is important because I find that I often don't leave comments on other sites because I don't have a sense of who the readers are. On this site, I'd know with whom I'm talking.

Do such social reading sites exist?

 

From Fast Company:

Q: Which communication mode is the most effective and productive for global teams in your organization?

Current Results (168 votes counted so far)

Email and instant messaging : 53%

Teleconferences : 11%

Video conferences : 11%

Face-to-face meetings : 23%

Weblogs ? - (my addition)

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