Socialtext raised a Series B round of venture capital. That’s the only clue I’m going to give you, clues are out there.

Ed Cone has a great piece in CIO Insight that covers enterprise social software and corporate blogging.

I used to believe that brand-centric companies were not adopting public blogging. Corporate brands are paying attention to blogging as they draw greater attention and criticism.

Adobe acquired Macromedia for $3.4 billion in stock. What’s interesting about this deal is how the combined company has two web platforms, .pdf and Flash, and neither are web friendly.

In the event I can’t get all this off my chest on my panel at OSBC on Open Source Innovation, here are my thoughts on a couple of levels.

Infoworld has written an article on a comprehensive package on the use of blogs/wikis in internal communications as well as for corporate communications/PR.

One of the most popular sessions at PC Forum was the Roundtable on User-generated Metadata.

Socialtext developer Chris Dent has a long and well considered post on social software and why he does wiki.

Socialtext relaunched it’s product line at PC Forum with three core offerings …

Notes from one of the first PC Forum sessions, while hanging out in irc://irc.freenode.net/#pcforum just after Jerry said something about how most bloggers are bad bloggers and new competition from real writers will crush us…

JD Lasica has an in-depth article on shilling, influence and blog ethics at Online Journalism Review.

A couple days ago, I was leaving work and was really surprised to run into Scott Rafer (Feedster CEO), Rich Skrenta (Topix.net co-founder), Ross Mayfield (Socialtext CEO) and a few others.