Our hosts here at Corante occasionally encourage us to link to stories posted by fellow contributors or new blogs set up under the aegis of the Corante service. Makes perfectly good sense – it’s the kind of network family cross-promotion that is common within the big media conglomerates. There’s certainly no pressure to do this kind of thing at Corante and Hylton and Stowe always approach such suggestions in a tactful and polite manner.

I mention this as preamble in the interests of transparency, as I’m about to point to two new Corante blogs. This way, I hope you’ll recognize that I’m doing so simply because I like what they have to say and the subject domains they’re addressing.

First up is Rebuilding Media, a brand new blog looking at "the economics of content". I'm already a big fan of one of the blog contributors, Vin Crosbie, having followed his work at Digital Deliverance for some time. Together with Robert Cauthorn, Vin has already thrown up some good stuff at the new Rebuilding Media blog. Nicely put thoughts such as: "By now, media companies should start to realize that the time to start new-media subsidiaries has ended and the time to replace their old media with new-media has begun."

Worth following for anyone with an interest in the evolution of traditional media.

Next up, Corante has also recently launched Future Tense, where the purpose is to explore "how the modern work 'place' is evolving and adapting to new trends, technologies, and economic factors."

Quite apart from the fact that this is an interesting topic in its own right, Future Tense also happens to feature some great early posts from tireless and extremely influential PR blogger Elizabeth Albrycht. Great to welcome a fellow flack to the Corante stable.

OK - enough fluffy bunny stuff. We now return you to your regularly scheduled fisking...