So many of the readers of my blog are not always up to date on what is going on in the web industry. Recently I became an addict of RSS feeds and Google Reader, and have been promoting them heavily. So for all those readers that want to stay up to date on the web industry, I’ve collected 20 blog below that will help you get started.
Tech Superstars
- CrunchNotes - The personal blog of Michael Arrington, the “King of Web2.0″
- Marshall Kirkpatrick - Former writer for Michael Arrington’s blog Techcrunch
- /Message - Personal blog of Stowe Boys. His focus is on social networking.
- Scobleizer - Personal blog of Robert Scoble, co-author of the book Naked Conversations. The other blog that Scoble and Shel Israel maintain is the Naked Conversations Blog.
- Scripting News - Personal blog of Dave Winer.
- Calacanis.com - Personal blog of Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs, Inc. which was later sold to AOL.
- The Paradigm Shift - Personal blog of Markus Frind, CEO of Plentyoffish.com
- The Long Tail - Personal blog of Chris Anderson the author of “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More”. I included this in the tech blogs because of the significant relevance of the Long Tail in relationship to blogs and web startups.
Web 2.0 Blogs
- Techcrunch - a weblog dedicated to profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies.
- Go2Web2 - Personal blog of Orli Yakuel covering all new web2.0 sites.
- Somewhat Frank - Personal blog of Frank Gruber a self-proclaimed technology and product development enthusiast. I’m not sure if this is the best category, but Frank’s blog is great.
- Web 2.0 Explorer - Everything web 2.0 by Richard MacManus
Other Popular Tech/Web Blogs
- Valleywag - This blog is the gossip center of silicon valley. Recently, this blog has got much better about breaking news stories in the web world.
- Read/WriteWeb - a popular weblog focused on next generation web technology.
- Library Stuff - a blog that covers everything in the technology world.
- Splashcast Blog - The public blog of Splashcast, a media syndication service.
- //engtech - An anonymous blog written by a Canadian engineer.
- Mashable - blog focused exclusively on social networks.
If 20 Isn’t Enough
December 15th, 2006
