Importance of GIS Blogs
I just read the newsletter of the OGC for December and was really excited about it, because it contains an article about the blogosphere and the ongoing dicussions about GML vs. KML. So blogs are playing an important role in the sense of formation of opinion in the web and standardization community.
Just a short thought before going to work 
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14. December 2005 um 13:19
I would even go a step further. Many scientists blog about their current research and get direct feedback from the readers. If there are any, I read, that there are more blogs writers than readers…But anyway, todays research evolve in working groups, feedback and acknowledgment is coming through publications and presentations. Using weblogs can help to get feedback much earlier and to avoid redundant or just misleading work.
12. January 2006 um 11:19
There is a comment on this post in the OGC’s newsletter for January 2006:
“The editor notes that there’s still quite a lot of confusion, in the blogosphere and elsewhere, between open source and open standards.
OGC staff responds: “Open source” refers to software products where source code is made available freely for all to use and change. “Open standards” refer to interfaces and encodings that enable interoperability between various software applications and data. In the OGC, open standards are developed using an open, consensus process, are non-discriminatory in their use, are royalty free, and are publicly available for anyone to implement anywhere at anytime. OpenGIS standards are implemented broadly in all kinds of commercial and open source software solutions.”