If you haven’t guessed already, calling bloggers to action is a bit like herding cats … except the cats move faster … much faster … and use real claws if you tick them off. And even though they recognize that Web 2.0 time goes by faster than dog years, when it comes to the big issues, they like to think about them … they really like to think about them! And sometimes they think so deep, you wonder if they’ve succumbed to the slumber of the Ents.

Fortunately, they haven’t … and some of them have finally picked up the virtual pen and committed their thoughts to the virtual paper. Even though Charles was quick to enter the fray, logging his thoughts the day my pre-announcement post went up, it was only late last week that the other bloggers began to make themselves known. Tim gave us a preamble post, inspired by a post of Brian, Jon Hansen gave us his preamble post and his main contribution, and Jason gave us his first post.

And more will be coming. Both David and Dave were contemplating theirs last week, JP is keen as well (though he might be a bit late with the new job), and a couple of the usual suspects (including Kevin Brooks and maybe even Eric Strovink, who’s also lined up for a guest post on spend analysis and contract management) should be chiming in sometime in the near future as well. There’s even a good chance I might even get one of our favorite analysts from AMR to chime in!

It’s taking longer than usual, but I assure you that I’m committed to do this and that I take the words of Cmdr. Peter Quincy Taggart to heart when it comes to innovation.

Never give up, never surrender! The future depends on it!