How to have smarter conversations...

Marc from JNJBTW posted a comment in response to a post the other day about Centocor's new corporate blog with an interesting point about the changing state of our industry as it relates to blogging...

if we are going to really start to understand how the world is changing, we are
going to have to start to be part of the conversation.

I have been puzzling as to what form this conversation is going to take...

Can it be a thoughtful conversation? How many blogs does it take to discuss an entire industry? How far will we get before louder tries to trump smarter?

As usual, there are guidelines for "Smarter Conversations" available from Hugh...

Updating Blogrolls...

The Blog rolls have been updated...they were not very up to date to start with, and the existing links were lost during the conversion to the new Blogger update...

A few thoughts...

1- Quantity- Wow, there are a lot more people blogging about this stuff than there used to be...A couple of years ago it was hard to find anyone else covering these topics...(although maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough)...Now you can't swing a WIP sample without hitting another Pharma blog...which is good news, I guess...the more the merrier...

2- That's Punny- There are only so many funny ways you can spin the Pharm/ Farm pun...but that certainly hasn't stopped people from trying...

3- Pharma versus Biotech- There seem to be a lot more people focused on the Pharma market than the Biotech market- Why the distinct separation???- they are converging faster than you think...

4- Corporate Blogs- Congrats to Johnson and Johnson for their "three dimensional view" blog...let's see if anyone follows suit.