Thought Leader

What is it to be a thought leader? The term seems to be coming up more often. Has information proliferated so much that we need various leaders of this sort to comment on particular domains of information? Is the information demanding some kind thought authority to organize it? Further, has information gotten so cheap that we're beginning to see it become some commodity (I'm quietly wretching at this sentence)? Lumping all information into one bucket is a bit shortsighted, but that being said, each of these thought buckets/domains has gotten so vertically developed they're all potentially suffering from the same symptom: s hyper-expansion of information without any means of ensuring some level of quality. (Hence, the need - and demand by the community - for these thought leaders.)

Other thoughts...
Dealing with change and culture at my job while trying to get a handle on our systems at an enterprise level. Writing about work and technical matters with a great deal of business jargon.

Other other thoughts...
Played my guitar. I'm enjoying my Boss CS-2 compressor. It doesn't kill the high-end of my guitar, yet still has some organic squish. I'm really digging it at this point. While I like my Barber Tone Press quiet a bit, I always get the feeling my high-end is suffering just a tad.

Cool Jazz

Things I'm excited about (sort of)
* The local cable access channel plays jazz. (I don't even like jazz that much, but I like local cable access.)
* JQuery Conference in Boston. I haven't coded at all the past 12 months, but I've begun coding a bit recently. It's been out of practical necessity and also for fun. This should be a good time.
* Alfresco training in Virginia. If things go well, I'll be heading to ol' Virginia for training on Alfresco, one of the hottest content management systems out right now. I haven't been on a training trip in a while, so again, I'm stoked.
* Taking Wyatt to the vet. Rosanne hopefully found Wyatt a good local vet. We can figure out why his eyes have been so gunked up lately.

Last thought.
It seems like everyone's blogging again. Why? Is there some material reward? Chris (see from previous blog) mentioned he knew somebody who blogged because they wanted to be a thought leader. A thought leader?! Yes, I knew what he was talking about, and I quietly felt some shame. Did I want to be a thought leader? I started blogging again because it seems like blogging has more credibility than when it first started out as some kind of rebranded live journal. I hated live journal for its self-involvement and its "dear diary" vibe. Is blogging okay now?

I think we're at the point blogging seems to be a legitimate channel of information (though rough). There's been a wave of blogger personalities for a while now -- do i want to be one?

Anyway, thought leaders anyone?