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
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.)
PowerShell
- Under the Stairs (Thomas Lee, one of the authors of PowerShell 2.0 Bible. @DoctorDNS) (updated November 4th, 2011)
- PowerShell Scripts Blog (Also by Thomas Lee) (updated November 4th, 2011)
- Unlock PowerShell (Karl Mirschke, one of the authors of PowerShell 2.0 Bible.) (updated November 4th, 2011)
- String Theory (Mark Schill, one of the authors of PowerShell 2.0 Bible. @meson3902) (updated November 4th, 2011)
- Get-PowerShellblog (PowerShell MVP Marco Shaw. @MarcoShaw) (updated November 4th, 2011)
- Script Fanatic (PowerShell MVP Shay Levy’s Microsoft blog. @ShayLevy) (updated November 4th, 2011)
InfoSec
- What I Learnt Today (Focuses on the financial services sector. The blog of @caelyxsec)
Linux
- Working with Ubuntu (The blog of @nigelbabu)
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:
Sales / Marketing / Etc.
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.)
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