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Keeping a blog-focused company moving forward will be an ongoing challenge, according to the panelists chatting at the evening keynote. At Pajamas Media, Roger Simon said work will continue on building their advertising network. The unique audience they have could really boost the CPM rates they can ask of advertisers.

Jeremy Wright of b5media said they have to grow based on what the audience wants. Not the so-called A-list of bloggers, but a more modest group of people who are more of a real world audience.

At Technorati, blogs aren’t the only content they have to track. New CEO Richard Jalichandra said it’s not so much about search anymore, but discovery. Why? They are tracking some 300 million "social media objects" now.

One theme recurred throughout the broader discussion, that of the depth and breadth of quality content appearing in blogs. Roger credited the passion of bloggers with making it work, while Richard noted his first week on the job found him delving into lots of content that he wants Technorati to discover better.

Amazing that there’s nothing about this on Jeremy Wright’s blog (he’s one of the founders of B5). Nor is there anything over on B5′s site itself. Nor is there anything about this over on Rick Segal’s blog (he’s one of the VC’s who funded B5, although he has an interesting piece about entrepreneurs who start acting like employees, which might be giving some hints about what happened here). UPDATE 3: Jeremy Wright tells me that Rick’s post was not connected with Duncan leaving.

Calling Nick Denton. Calling Nick Denton.

UPDATE: I’m not the only one asking this. Munir Umrani, AKA the Blogging Journalist, is asking similar questions.

UPDATE 2: The B5 Media blog does have a mention of Duncan’s leaving. Comments are interesting there too.

My thoughts? I enjoyed Duncan’s work through the years. Hey, Duncan, you any good with a video camera?

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Robert Scoble is the founder of the Scobleizer blog. He works as PodTech.net’s Vice President of Media Development.

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