Which Technical Sites Do You Read?

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2. So you visit a site you are involved with?

3. For various reasons I occassional log into the following tech blogs. One could do nothing else but read blogs (good, bad,funny and downright ugly)
   Anywhere here are a few of my recommendations:
   http://www.uphoffonmedia.com/uphoffonmediacom/2009/6/28/7-key-themes-on-the-state-of-tech-marketing-today.html
   http://www.insurancetech.com/policy-administration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500073
   http://chrishornat.blogspot.com/2009/07/innovation-task-force-first-meeting.html
   http://brian.teeman.net/
   http://www.apeofsteel.com/
   Silicon Republic
   http://blogs.forrester.com/product_management/2008/01/bff-for-product.html
   http://blog.sciodev.com/
   http://blogs.gartner.com/ – pick the ones that are most relevant to your area of specialism/expertise I’m interested in technology in financial services.
   http://www.forrester.com/community as above

4. I tend to have a rather eclectic reading pattern. Sometimes I visit TheRegister.co.uk and Siliconrepublic for tech news. However Siliconrepublic.com is just too shallow (recycled press releases) when it comes to deep tech stuff. Wired is interesting up to a point. Cnet’s http://www.news.com has good general coverage. Even the Irish Times Friday business technology section might have something interesting.
   It really depends on what I am working on at the time. So on any given day, that could move from database topics, computability issues, algorithms, HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, cryptography, hardware and technology. With the crypto, it is generally the mailing lists and Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram.
   The problem is that anyone who is in any way technologically competent reaches a level of knowledge that is way beyond the average technology journalist and as a result, their visits to ordinary tech news sites will begin to decrease as their vists to specialist tech sites increase.

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6. http://www.lifehacker.com is pretty good for productivity software and for stuff like office setups etc

7. I’ve stopped following aggregated blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo, TUAW, Wired, TechCrunch etc. They post too much and about too many things to be useful.
   Instead I follow a handful of individual bloggers. One of them will always pick-up on the big stories while offering stories that the aggregated sites tend to miss. Kottke, Daring Fireball, Simon Willison, Aidan Finn, Damien Mulley, Tom Raftery on Green Monk, Hivelogic, I Am Cal, Plasticbag, Dave Winer etc.
   Twitter has become a big source of news now though. Plenty from yourself, Pat Phelan, Top Gold, Eirepreneur etc.

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