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.
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This was first published in July 2008
