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So here’s the new BusinessWeek cover story that I was talking about yesterday.

It’s called Beyond Blogs and there are an interesting collection of stories on wikis, social networking and generally how businesses are working with blogs.

There’s a nice little video overview of the subject from one of the journalists who led this, Stephen Baker at the top of the page.

Couple of interesting points from it that jumped out at me:

“One of the big opportunties for social media in the coming years to help us deal with this deluge of information…” Absolutely. Even on a personal level, services like FriendFeed don’t seem up to the job of helping me filter my social networks’ information just yet.

“There is a bubble… but it doesn’t matter…” I’m looking forward to reading more and finding out about the social media bubble. But he’s right again of course that an industry / start-up bubble won’t matter much unless you an investor or a businessperson who gets caught up in it. The rest of the world just has to let the good things of social media come their way.