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For some reason, three of my favourite blogs posted self-referential reflection posts at pretty much the same time. An excuse for me to pay homage to them (and some other blogs I enjoy). In no particular order:

a) PaidContent.org is the most professional blog that I know of and I’ve been an admirer for a while now. Rafat and Staci have a knack of getting to the nitty gritty of each story and the coverage of new media is second to none. I also admire the network Rafat has built (and continues to expand) and all the sponsors he has! PaidContent is celebrating 3 years this week, so congrats! Rafat says “I still believe, as I believed it back then, that the weblog publishing tools have enabled the rise of the individual journalist-entrepreneur, away from the shackles of underpaid, under-utilized, under-appreciated jobs with formal media companies.”

Amen to that!

b) Another blog I admire is Om Maliks’s Broadband Blog. To be honest, a lot of the topics he covers aren’t really in my interest areas (telecommunications, broadband). But the way he writes and the sheer quantity of quality, topic-focused posts he pumps out is amazing. He’s just posted a request for feedback from his readers – it’s noteworthy that more than a few commenters said they want the long-form posts to continue. As another blogger who tends to favour the long-form posts (I simply can’t stop myself – and I suspect Om is the same), that’s good to hear.

I particularly enjoyed comment #2, which I’m going to paste here – because it’s an excellent reminder of the type of blogger I aspire to be.

“You are differentiated by relaying important developments *AND* providing insightful, compact analysis backed up where possible with factoids. Too many blogs out there are mere ìrepeaters.î

Yours is one of a handful of blogs I follow closely. But I scan the feed and donít look at the categories.

Thlinking is fine, but long form provides more to chew on.

Do more ìpicture buildingî, pulling together a series of seemingly disparate pieces of information to reveal something hitherto unrecognized. Youíre good at that.

If you must expand, then look more at applications and services that are only now possible because of ubiquitous broadband into the home and small biz.

Donít loose your irreverence.

NB: I am a poor model for the world.”

c) Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail blog is one I follow because of the ideas, but also because it’s a great example of using a blog as a precursor to a book. Chris is celebrating the 6-month anniversary of his blog and says:

“It’s been hugely fun so far, and very encouraging as an experiment in sharing book research, thinking and some writing (or at least phrasing) in public. Thanks to the extraordinary quality of the comments, emails and other feedback I’ve received on my posts, I think the book is going to be far better thought-through than I could have made it myself.”

d) Some other blogs that I follow, which I think are worthy of more attention:

Joshua Porter’s blog about interface design – we have very complimentary ideas about Web 2.0.

Mathemagenic, Lilia Efimova’s blog about Knowledge Management. The thing I admire about Lilia is how she continues to write creative and poetic posts, while staying focused on her niche of KM.

Susan Mernit is a constant source of inspiration about new media topics, and manages to mix in personal stories and life observations too.

Andy Baio’s waxy.org is a blog I wish was updated much more often 😉 But luckily for us, there’s a continuous stream of Waxy Links to follow.

Erik Benson’s blog has always been thought-provoking. As with waxy, I only wish he published more long-form posts these days. But he’s busy doing real work with The Robot Co-op (and excellent work it is too!).

Andrew Chen is a blogger I’ve become good friends with over the past year. I keep berating him to post more often, because his writings on cyber-ethical themes (in particular) are well worth reading. But like Erik, Andrew’s too busy in the real world. 🙂

Dina Mehta is an Indian blogger whose social software posts are thoughtful and an excellent counterpoint to the more American-centric blogs that I usually follow. The tech world needs more international bloggers (hey, that’s me too!).

There are loads of other bloggers that I follow keenly and I’ve probably missed out at least 3-4 obvious ones, but it’s getting (very) late and it’s time for me to get some sleep.

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