Blog List

Last updated Nov 4, 2011

Here is the list of blogs that I follow. The list is always under development and if you don’t see your blog, let me know about it. Some blogs are seen in multiple categories. Yes, I have too many:

Technology (Vendors):

• Roller Network Newspipe (Very cool mail hosting, colocation, etc. vendor with awesome support for IPv6 services. Best example of how a vendor should communicate with their customers that I can find.)
• OmniTI Seeds
• Server Tech Blog (Information for the Datacenter Equipment Manager)
• PrivateCloud.com (Sponsored by EMC)

Technology (Major Sources):

• All Things O’Reilly
• Virtual PC Guy’s Blog (Microsoft employee blogging about Hyper-V mostly)
• Planet Network Management (Network Management Blog Aggregate)
• nixCraft – Insight into Linux Admin Work
• SysAdmin-Talk
• DataCenter Knowledge
• gigaom

Conference Blogs

• HostingCon Blog

Technology (Indie Bloggers):

• Technodrone – Going Virtual in the Physical World
• Juanma’s Blog - Bits from my life as HP-UX SysAdmin
• Aaron’s Worthless Words
• Agile SysAdmin
• Agile IT by Doug Luxem
• Error404 – It’s A Blog
• Ramblings From The Litter Tray of Life
• Cole Lavallee | Boy Genius
• jStudios (a member of the infrastructure team that maintains .Net web servers, that hosts applications for automotive dealers)
• errr-online
• I’m a UC blog (That’s UC as in “Unified Communications”, but you knew that already. Microsoft MVP in Communication Server)
• Get *NIXy (I got 99 problems but a cron job ain’t one)
• Happy SysAdmin
• Geeking with Greg
• William Bilancio’s blog (Director at League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA))
• Just Another DC Blog (seems like a lot of Cisco stuff on there)
• The Ninja SysAdmin
• The IT Hedgehog
• SemiComplete.com (Jordan Sissel’s blog)
• Shedding Bikes
• FlickerDown.com (Dave Graham, Senior Systems Engineer at Cirtas Systems)
• mazzie – awkward yuppie scofflaw
• Semafour (The blog of @JosephKern)
• On Being Open
• Jacob Jernigan’s Blog (Rants about system administration and other things)
• WillBradley.name (Personal Blog of a Geek in Phoenix AZ)
• Virtualization Buster
  
• The PerfMon Blog (Great blog about web performance monitoring)
• The Helpful Hacker (the blog of @zpeters)
• Above Technical (Blog author shares his learning of soft skills as he begins his professional career in IT.)
• Tech Prosaic (PowerShell and other stuff)
• System Bash (Technology and System Administration)
• Semi Complete (Jordan Sissel’s blog)
• Rebootuser (A blog about virtually anything to do with virtualisation)
• Admin Nation (A content source / blog for all things to do with systems administration. Lots of trouble shooting articles.)

Developers (Web and other forms)

• The Blog of Oozman (PHP tips along with some magic instruction.)
• Zytzagoo’s Den (Web development and design. The blog of @zytzagoo)
• zlayer.net (Lots of Alfresco. The blog of @zladuric)
• Chris Nizzardini (Web development, MySQL, PHP. The blog of @cnizzdotcom)
  

Technology (Analysts)

• Arthur Cole (Datacenter Infrastructure)
• Storage Nerve
• Richard Jones (disaster recovery, business continuity, x86 server operating systems, datacenter)
• Data Center Design (A blog run by consultants and engineers at PTS Data Center Solutions)
• Rough Type (blog by Nicholas Carr)

Productivity:

• mnmlist
• Becoming Minimalist
• Black Belt Productivity
• Zen Habits
• 43 Folders
• Michael Hyatt
• Far Beyond The Stars

Leadership:

• Michael Hyatt
• Leadership Freak

Sales / Marketing / Etc.

• PPCBlog

Relationship:

Non Tech

• Rachel Held Evans (New Evangelical blogger/writer)
• The Artist Formerly Known as sweetafton23 (Listen to everything on her YouTube channel. Twice. Thank me later.)

Other SysAdmin Listings:

• PostRank SysAdmin List
• Splattne’s Twitter SysAdmin List