My Favorite Blogs -- Part 1.

It is nearing year-end, and I have been reading some fantastic blogs lately.  So I thought it is worthwhile, from an Information Management perspective, to list a subset of the blogs that I follow to do my job better.  And I have included one sample post that exemplifies why I am a fan.  No political, entertainment, sports, general gadgetry blogs listed here.  Some other time on those (if ever :).  And this is just part 1.

Analyst Blogs:

1. Tecosystems by Stephen O'Grady.  See the debate about big analysts/boutique OS analysts about how exactly do you measure an analyst firm's effectiveness?  This as recently rekindled, but the original post is a gem.
2. Monkchips by James Governor.  See the debate about supplier side IP policies -- how big firms do and do not open up their IP to spur innovation.
3. Redmonk TV.  See this, please.  :) :)
4. Forrester's IM blog.  See the post on ECM market changes.  That is a good way for someone like me to keep track of industry changes.

Academics whom I like

1. Alon Halevy, ex. UW, now @ Google.  See his report on VLDB 2007 as a good way for me to keep in touch with the academic influences in the field.
2. Mike Stonebraker, professor at MIT, my PhD advisor, now writing alongwith Don Haderle, Dave DeWitt etc. in something called the Database Column. See a good discussion on whether column-oriented databases will take over the world.  Initially, the blog seemed to be an ad for Vertica the company, but it has expanded very well, and Don Haderle's recent post is great example of the broadening of the blog.
3. Panos Ipeirotis, a  prof. at NYU.  His thorough analysis of Mechanical Turk as a way of augmenting machine intelligence was very fascinating.

IBM Colleagues

1. Carl Kessler, VP of ECM development.  I learn a lot from him, in the blogosphere and outside.  See the stakeholder post as a great example of his thoughtfulness.
2. Lauren Cooney, Program Director, Community, working for me.  She keeps me connected to the community, forces a 40+ person like me to be in Facebook (see this as a great example of what I am talking of), Twitter, Dopplr and the like (though as they say, "You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink :)".  See this.

Many more to come in part 2.  As always, what am I missing in these categories, would love to know...

Comments

[Lauren Cooney]

Glad I keep you young at heart Anant :) and thanks for this. You do really have to spend a few minutes on the Onion/Google maps collaboration. It's pretty hysterical. /LC

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