What a nice surprise, to learn this morning (via Andy's River, post by Ron) that the ranks of 1999bloggers have been joined by Doc Searls. As evidenced by this post of a few days ago (follow the embedded links for more background), Doc -as one of the early settlers on the blogscape that emerged back around turn of the millenium- knows what "blogging like it's 1999" means as well as anyone around. From my perspective, the ClueTrain Manifesto and Doc's related writings about the concept of VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) were an important influence in the first years of this century, and are now more relevant than ever. So now, as then, i shall be reading his every post with interest.