Links

There are far too many blogs out there and each has far more information than can be fully appreciated - particularly the gadget blogs that post 40 to 60 times a day. That said, it is worthwhile skimming them because occasionally you find wheat in all the chaff.

Think of this as a Blogroll, only one with a commentary.

Analysis Blogs

Name	Contents	Content Type
Telebusillis	Keith McMahon's work is always worth a read. Specialist subjects include UK broadband and European mobile, which are analysed in perceptive, financial detail.
Communications	Brough Turner's work brings a perspective that I haven't seen anywhere else. A combination of influences from Asia as well as a strong sense of history and its parallels in modern times is what I like about this site.
Telco 2.0	Simon Torrance has to be the best dressed man in telecoms and his company's blog is full of strategic insights for telecoms operators and their partners. They own the Telco 2.0 brand and use it well through their conferences (which are documented on the blog) to provide a forum for enlightened thinking.
Fast Company	I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you didn't know already, but Fast Company's blog regularly contains articles that offer more than a simple copy/paste of a company's press release. A goliath, yes, but a thoughtful one. A BFG?
GigaOM	No list of analysis blogs is complete without Om, who manages to break news at a rapid pace, hold exlcusive interviews with movers and shakers and tell us what it all means under the PR skin with astonishing ease.

Gadget Blogs

Name	Contents	Content Type
Gizmodo	I like Gizmodo for its sauciness and its willingness to push the boundaries previously imposed on us by old world media. Gizmodo's iPhone coverage was way over the top, but that is what I mean: it was informative and fun. 50 articles a day though? Slow down lads...
Engadget	Certainly more serious than Gizmodo, but with that comes a little more in the way of analysis. The types of gadgets to be found here also seem to be a little more varied and their descriptions are often grounded in commercial reality. Seem to be in a competition with Gizmodo for most posts a day... Perhaps it's a gadget-blog thing?

News Aggregator Blogs

Name	Contents	Content Type
The Register	Is The Register a Blog? Who cares... What Vulture Central offers is the ability to keep up with the industry with a dose of healthy scepticsm thrown in to the bargain. Increasingly a good blog aggregator too with guest posts from esteemed publishers wuch as Newswireless and OfcomWatch. But you know this, because you read The Reg too.
Total Telecom	Total Telecom is certainly not a blog, but as it is a useful resource for more sober articles, providing a wider perspective on the market and including data from market studies. Also carries Dow Jones News Wire articles, but a registration is required.
Robin Good	Robin picks out his pieces from the big name blogs like Mashable, TechCrunch and ProBlogger. So why not go there, you ask? Between them, these sites publish 50 or more articles a day, so the service that Robin provides filtering them for you is worth something.
WebTVWire	Chris Tew's offering is an amalgamation of writings by smaller bloggers, but he seems to have an eye for a good story. It is in its early stages, but the quality of writing is generally high although one or two articles may give you something to argue with.

Other Blogs

Name	Contents	Content Type
Jeff Pulver	Fitting that Jeff should have a catgeory of his own... Will try anything once and tells the world about it on pulverTV. What I like is that he asks some thought provoking questions when he stops to think.

There was one occasion when I was truly dumbstruck by an application that I saw, that I felt a strong need to share what I have seen with others. Please make time to watch the Seadragon / Photosynth presentation, especially at the end where they show the world's online photos being brought together to build up a 3D view of an object or a place. If you do nothing else, watch that and ask yourself where that is taking us? It makes Google Earth look like something from the Stone Age.