Loosely Coupled Scripting News Enterprise Computing Ejournal Misbehaving.net Security Blog Technology Trends Wi-Fi Networking News Ray Ozzie's Weblog Let the data flow!

Each morning, I fire up my RSS aggregator and go through the latest headlines from enterprise-related Weblogs. Here I've pulled together a list of the 10 I've come to consider essential reading. Their bloggers do a good job explaining the fields they specialize in, offering unique insights or information you might not get elsewhere.

Phil Wainewright's Loosely Coupled Weblog

Wainewright focuses on "planning, deploying and managing loosely coupled business-process automation." In practical terms, that means a lot of discussion about Web services. Now, as a relatively new set of technologies and standards, Web services can lead to minefields of misinformation. Wainewright cuts through the vendor hype and tells you what to look out for - and what all that acronym gobbledygook really means (or doesn't, as the case may be). He even provides a Web services glossary.

Dave Winer's Scripting News

Winer merits distinction as one of the fathers of today's "blogosphere" for helping come up with RSS, which is the XML-based content-sharing specification many Weblogs use, and for building Radio Userland, a popular Weblog writing application. Love him or hate him (there's not much of a middle ground when it comes to Winer), his Scripting News is a must-read if you're thinking about the future of information distribution and content sharing on the Internet.

Phil Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog

Windley, the former CIO for the state of Utah, knows IT. His Weblog covers the breadth of stuff today's IS and networking pros need to keep up with - from security to network architecture to management (of devices and staff). As you might expect, he often discusses government networking issues, but also has a strong interest in identity management and network security in general.

Dan Gillmor's EJournal

Gillmor, a columnist for The San Jose Mercury News, was one of the first mainstream writers to embrace Weblogs. More important, his daily writing explores the nexus between technology, politics and government policy.

Misbehaving.net

Misbehaving.net is a group effort about, and written by, women in computing. Writers not only discuss issues such as the lack of role models and mentors for women in the field but also pose questions about the basic role of technology: "Do some engineers design technology to impress other engineers with how smart they are, but are essentially solving non-problems?"