Update - what is an analyst blog?

I’m still digesting the blog criteria, descriptive/rating ideas and social debates raised by my volunteer advisory team of analysts and consultants. Sorry it’s taking so long.

Meanwhile, my foraging for social media rating criteria just turned up Ian Delaney’s thought-provoking post at twopointouch, Principles for Online Communities. It’s a short distillation of pre-Web 2.0 essays on designing online communities around the human psyche. He suggests it might be fun to use it to rate the Web 2.0 wunderkinder; I agree. I’m looking at how to apply it to describing/rating analyst blogs.

This sort of list might go a long way to evaluating analyst deployments of [other] social technologies, too. As Mike Gotta noted, more and more analysts are using bookmarking, wikis, twitter, etc. It would be useful to have a system for sorting out which ones have broader value and which are virtual scribbles, link bait, artifacts of a clip junkie, etc.