Best IT blogs: Full shortlist for Computer Weekly's IT Blog Awards 2008

Help us to identify the best IT blogs in the UK - the blogs that IT professionals consider a must-read.

Throughout May Computer Weekly readers nominated the blogs they follow to be considered for the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2008. From those nominations our panel of judges selected a final shortlist. We then invited you to vote for the winners, so that we could discover the best-loved blogs in the UK IT industry today. (Updated: 19 August 2008 - Winners announced)

Links to every shortlisted blog follow below.

Shortlisted blogs

CIO and IT director blogs

• Confused of Calcutta by J P Rangaswami
• CIO Blog on ComputerWorldUK by Richard Steel
• The Hot Aisle by Steve O'Donnell
• Fighting The Trillion Dollar Bonfire by Colin Beveridge
• Keystones And Rivets by Paul Wallis
• Verbatim by The Corporate IT Forum
• CIO Blog by Peter Birley
• CTO Blog from Capgemini
• Uncommon Sense on Silicon by Peter Cochrane
• The IT Value Stack by Ade McCormack

Company blogs

• Capping IT Off from Capgemini
• Steve Clayton: Geek in Disguise
• Wadds' Tech PR Blog from Rainier PR
• David Overton, the UKSBSGUY
• Eileen Brown from Microsoft's UK Technical Evangelism team
• MSMQ from the plumber's mate by John Breakwell on MSDN
• LG Blog
• PlusNet Blog
• LogBlog from LogLogic
• Microsoft on ISVs

IT law and governance blogs

• Binary Law: Legal Information in the Digital Age
• NTOUK by Jerry Fishenden
• Racing Snake: Esoterica by Robin Wilton
• The Orange Rag: Legal Technology Insider
• IMPACT from Freeth Cartwright LLP
• TechnoLlama
• panGloss
• Naked Law
• IPKat
• RFID Law Blog

IT lifestyle blogs

• OddIT from BCS
• Fired Up by Firebox.com
• Mr Bojangles by Tom Ilube
• Gaj-It.com
• Gizmodo UK
• Count Pixel's Games Blog from BCS
• Oak Grove by Graham Chastney
• Alt Text by Lore Sjöberg on Wired
• The Guardian's digital content blog: pda

IT project management blogs

• The Tao of Project Management
• A Girl's Guide to Managing Projects
• The Cranky Product Manager
• On Product Management
• All about agile
• All about product management
• Johny's Data Migration Blog from BCS

IT security blogs

• View from the Bunker by Guy Bunker of Symantec
• STAT Blog from Scansafe
• Anton Chuvakin: Security Warrior
• Security Matters by Steve Lamb
• Ivan Ristić: Discussing security and open source
• IT Security: The view from here by Rob Newby
• Schneier on Security
• Government Security.org: Network Security Resources
• The Unofficial Cisco MARS Blog
• The Digital Identity Forum Blog

Programming and technical blogs

• Adrian Bridgwater: Software application development
• Daniel's Blog by Daniel Lewis
• Giorgio Sardo's Blog on MSDN
• Bits and Bytes by Mike Taulty
• Project Entropy by Daryn Holmes
• Andrew Fryer's SQL Blog on TechNet
• Open Objects by Mia Ridge
• Tim Anderson's ITWriting
• The long way round at clevegibbon.com
• UNIX Administratosphere

Public sector IT blogs

• The Great E-mancipator
• Informaticopia by Rod Ward and co
• Unqualified Remarks from BCS
• Microsoft UK Schools News Blog
• Changing the game? Moodle at an LEA
• Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD
• Ewan McIntosh's edublogs.com
• WatfordGap's Travels

Web 2.0 and business blogs

• Eightbar from Hursley Park
• UK Web Focus by Brian Kelly
• Roo Reynolds - What's Next?
• Middledigit.net, by Jonathan Hopkins
• Broadstuff from Broadsight
• Whatfettle, marras? by Paul Downey
• User Pathways by James Kelway
• DRM blog by Jude Umeh from BCS
• TechCrunch UK
• Blending the Mix

Wireless and mobile blogs

• Mobile LOB Blog (Binary Refinery) by Richard Jones
• Mr Mobile by Jason Langridge on MSDN
• Disruptive Wireless by Dean Bubley
• moof.mobi
• SMStextNews: Tracking stuff in mobile
• Cat Calling by Catherine Keynes
• Euro Tech News by Steve Kennedy
• More Blah 2.0: WirelessWanders by Paul Golding
• Tracy and Matt's blog
• The UK Mobile Report

Voting took place throughout July and the winners were announced on 19 August.