What are you reading on IT blogs?
Ever feel like you have 100 channels but nothing’s on? I’m definitely feeling that way about television. Now that I have a TiVo®, though, my television viewing is sharply focused to just the content that I want to know about. I recently showed a co-worker of mine my RSS aggregator, Bloglines, and he said “It’s like TiVo for web pages!” That’s the perfect explanation.
So. How do you find good, insightful, relevant blogs on topics that matter to you? I recently read the CNet Top 100 blogs list. You can also download the list as an OPML file and import it into your newsreader. Their categories are a little “out there” to me. Their categores are Cutting edge, Digital lifestyle (that one’s vague), Law/politics, Mac nation, Open source, Search/media (this one’s an odd combo to me), Security/threats, Software,Tech business, and Web culture. Many of my favorites are on that list, but I think it’s definitely bent towards a geeky Mac bloggers’ list, and weighted towards computer technology. I would have also added a “Parenting” category as well as an “Automobile” category. And what about Mobile?
For IT-related blogs, I’ve got several categories in mind. Examples include IT Governance, Infrastructure Management, Application Management, Change and Configuration Management, Identity Management, IT Culture, Mainframe, Capacity Planning, Performance Monitoring, Enterprise Architecture, Network Administrator, and Service Oriented Architecture, all categories for which I’m doing searches for blogs. What categories would you choose for IT-related feeds? What would make your top 10 (or 100, even) IT-related blogs list?