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Here are 50 more blogs about business-to-business marketing, bringing the total on the complete Big List of B2B Marketing Blogs to 138 blogs. B2B marketing still lags far behind other categories of marketing blogs, so please keep letting me know via comments if you find any B2B blogs that I missed. As always, here is the updated B2B marketing blog OPML file.

Earlier this month, I announced the Top 10 Blogs for Writers. I recently asked each of these stellar bloggers to pick their best posts on the topic of writing from 2007. What follows is pure gold. This is the best, direct FROM the best.

Will the popularity of blogging lead to its demise? Presently on the internet there are blogs in existence for almost every subject, every demographic, and every topic imaginable and more being created every minute. Lately as I peruse websites looking for useful information I have come to the realization that there are just too many blogs on the internet. While this might not be a popular view it certainly feels good to get that perspective out there amongst ProBlogger readers for debate. It also got me to thinking, will the popularity of blogging lead to its eventual downfall?

This is a post on why you should give back to the blogsphere in order to reap more benefits than you have every in the past for your blog. The truth is in order to build a big blog community you have to give. If you do not your blog will be sent to the blog basement to never be seen from or heard from again.

Interesting discussion going on about whether PR agencies should blog over at Brian Solis' PR 2.0 Blog. Part of the post applies to all businesses: "First and foremost, not everyone needs to, or should blog. Some people just don't have anything interesting to say and that's OK. Not everyone needs to write a book, skydive, or sing karaoke either. Yes, so openness and transparency are "the new black." But don't take it at face value. Think about it first."

For business blogging skeptics, the idea that a roofing company would bother with a blog might seem ludicrous.  But that kind of thinking betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the power of the new generation of business blogs.

Once upon a time there were three little blogs. They collectively decided that it was time to leave blogspot.com and move on to their very own domains.

In this post I’ll share readers comments on the topic of Blog Hosting, Domains and Platforms and will share some of my own experiences and advice.

So good news overall. We’re getting much better tools and more interest, while we can continue to experiment and learn. But with increasing competition, we’ll have to work even harder to deserve and retain reader attention through relevant quality content. Do you agree, or better, disagree? I’d love to hear from you on your views where (business) blogging is going.

Most of the “rules” about writing for ezines and newsletters apply to writing posts for your blog, but there are some important differences. Keep these 10 tips in mind and you’ll be publishing great blog content that attracts prospects and clients in your niche market. “Keep in mind the journalist’s rule of 5 W’s in the first paragraph: who, what, why, when and where…. and … Did you remember to ask your readers a question at the end, or something to stimulate readers to comment?”

"There are 93.8 million blogs worldwide," says SEO-PR president and co-founder Greg Jarboe. "Getting excited about getting a blog is like getting excited when the phone book arrives."

In this article, I’m going to share the 7 essential topics that will give your blog the focus it needs. We’ll look at real world examples, and define some criteria to determine which is right for your business.

According to David, blog participation is ranked from 0 to 3, Unengaged to Fully Engaged. On behalf of the business-to-business word, I would like to propose an intermediate, fifth level, and a very populated one at that. Level .5.

Blogger and founder Chris Baggott of Compendium Blogware has published 10 tips for organizations aspiring to blog.

Over the past 7 months, Junta42 has produced a continuous stream of relevant content, now adding up to a knowledge base of close to a 1000 articles. With the recent addition of the top content marketing blog list and the consequent increase of activity, it’s high time for a discussion with Joe about the emerging discipline of content marketing, and how it is supported by Junta42.

The most popular post I’ve written to date is a review of prediction market software. Today’s post is going to be the same, but for idea/innovation software (henceforth referred to as innovation software). Trying to even find and identify all the different types of innovation software is difficult because of the different ways people and companies think about innovation. Prediction markets are straightforward; they’re futures markets, so the software is largely the interface between the user and the order book on the database. That is not at all so for innovation software. Different people think about innovation in different ways, which I referred to in a previous post. The list below is likely not complete, but I believe it does pick up the major players.

Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It's almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.

Here’s my response: 1. I have no idea if the Facebook platform is alive or dead. I’ve got left-over MREs from Y2K, however, so I think I can survive its demise, if it should occur. 2. Asking people if they use RSS is like asking people what size air filter goes in their car. RSS is now entrenched in the infrastructure of the sharing web. It fuels widgets, it automates blog posts, it enables all sorts of gizmos and thingees that the average web user would never recognize as RSS. Nor should they. Web users should click on a button that says, “bring me information about this topic or from this source.” How it gets delivered will probably involve RSS, but who the heck cares.