Best IT blogs: Full shortlist for Computer Weekly's IT Blog Awards 2008
Shortlist for Computer Weekly's IT Blog Awards 2008 in full, with links direct to all the shortlisted blogs.
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.
