The number of blogs I read has grown way beyond what’s practical to list in a regular blog roll. Here’s who I am reading most often.
Blogging, New Media, SEO, Community Building, Web Design
- FastWonder – Open Culture blog by Jive Software’s Dawn Foster
- The Drill Down – A social media podcast by by Andrew Sorcini
- Chris Brogan – Chris Brogan uses social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals.
- HorsePigCow – Marketing uncommon by Tara Hunt
- ProBlogger- Blog tips to help you make money by professional blogger Darren Rowse
- Scobleizer – Robert Scoble the original Microsoft blogger, and voice of Web 2.0
- Matt Cutts – Google’s most popular voice on search
- SEO Book – Aaron Wall’s excellent SEO reference
- SearchEngineLand – The most comprehensive source of Search Engine Optimization news
- SEOmoz – News, tips, and tricks from the SEO industry
- Jakob Nielsen’s Use It – The king of web usability
- Web Strategy – Discussion on how web tools enable companies to connect with customers by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang
Legal Especially Intellectual Property Law
- Groklaw – Pamela Jones legal reference for the digital world spawned by the SCO suit against IBM
- Mark Radcliffe – Senior Partner at DLA Piper, General counsel to the Open Source Initiative
- LuisVilla – Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between
Local & Personal
- TheAntiBike – Cycling enthusiast and childhood friend, DK
- The Article Writer – Fellow Cary,NC resident and Web 2.0 savvy writer.
- Dancing Penguins of Light – Sam Huckins blog on technology
- MarkTurner -Technology enthusiast and friend
- PlanetTriLUG – Blog aggregator for Triangle Linux Users Group
- SoutheastVC – RTP venture capitalist, Jason Caplain’s blog
- Clubjuggler – Tanner Lovelace’s blog
Marketing and Business
- CopyBlogger – Tips for creating excellent web content by Brian Clark
- GapingVoid - Hugh MacLeod’s business card art and marketing advice
- SethGodin – Prolific marketing strategist, author,blogger, and founder of Squidoo
- WebInkNow – Author of the New Rules of Marketing and PR,and Web 2.0 marketing guru David Meerman Scott
Open Source
- O (blog N) – Personal blog of MindTouch’s (open source wiki software) Aaron Fulkerson
- Boycott Novell – Roy Schestowitz’s blog on fair competition and consumer rights specifically when it comes to Novell’s deal with Microsoft
- Joe Brockmeier – Former editor Linux Magazine and Open Community Community Manager
- The Open Road – One of open source’s most prolific bloggers Matt Asay
- CAOS Theory – Blog by analyst firm, The 451 Group on the commercial adoption of open source (CAOS)
- Code – A blog about open source technology at The New York Times, written by and primarily for developers
- Alex Fletcher – Analyst for the Entiva Group
- Glynn Foster – Open Solaris and GNOME hacker
- Robert Gallopini – Italian Open Source leader
- Hoosier Penguin – Blog by OSS Writer and Linux Foundation Community Manager Brian Proffit
- Don Marti – Editor-in-Chief of LinuxWorld.com
- Fabrizio Capobianco – CEO of Funambol, the mobile open source company
- Kabatology – Practical hand-outs on Open Source Standards, Reviews, Linux Solutions including Hacks, Tips & Tricks by Martin Kaba.
- No Node Left Behind- Blog for open source systems management vendor, Zenoss
- Once More onto the Breach – Stephen Walli’s blog about open source, standards, and the business of software
- Open… – Author and journalist, Glyn Moody covering open source, open genomics, and open content
- The Open Force- Blog by MySQL CEO Zack Urlocker
- Open Source Community Blog- Blog with discussion on open source content management systems: Joomla, WordPress, Plone, Typo3 and more
- Port25 – Microsoft’s open source blog
- Resourceful Idiot – Open source and technology blogger
- SourceForgeBlog – Community blog for the world’s largest repository ofopen source software
- rand ($thought); – IBM architect Savio Rodrigues blog on open source
- The VAR Guy – Covers a bit of everything but a lot of open source commentary.
- ZDnet: Linux andOpen Source – Blog by journalists Dana Blankenhorn and Paula Rooney
Technology
- BadgerFiles – Mike Badger’s blog on technology
- Nicholas Carr – The author of the Does IT Matter and The Big Switch
- Joel on Software – Blog about software and software companies by programmer and CEO, Joel Spolsky
- Doug McClure – Blog on Business Service Management by Doug McClure
- Monkchips – Red Monk Analyst James Governor’s discussion on software ecosystems and convergence
- OSNews – Operating system news with a oen source feel
- People Over Process – Redmonk Analyst, systems management refugee, and sandwich connesouir Michael Cote
- JonathanSwartz – CEO of Sun Microsystems
- Tech Teapot – Blog on networking by Jack Hughes
- Tecosystems – RedMonk Analyst Stephen O’Grady’s blog on open source
- JohnM. Willis – Tivoli and ESM expert who is seeing the open source light
- WiredBlogs – Wired Magazine’s blog portal
- whurley – Evil Genius
