Looking For New Blogs to Read
If I had to say I was addicted to any part of life online it would be reading RSS feeds. Addicted might be the wrong word, but I do spend a fair amount of time keeping up with the blogs/news/feeds I subscribe to. These feeds are organised by "folders" in FeedDemon, one of which I've called Domino (here's the OPML for it).
There are about sixteen personal Domino-based weblogs in my folder. At times there are more, other times there are less. I go through a cyclical process of un/subscribing to Domino blogs. I'll add a whole load of them in one go; then I'll keep an eye on them and remove those that rarely get updated or stray off topic. There's only really a handful of true "Domino blogs" that consistently stay in there.
Without getting in to what a "Domino blog" is, here's what I look for in a blog for it to make it in to my Domino folder:
- Regularly updated.
- Primarily about Domino, but with other technologies mentioned and discussed.
- Has a strong focus toward the web side of development. Ideally that's all it's about.
- Hosting wise, it doesn't have to be Domino-based, which is, of course, different to be about Domino.
Basically I want to learn from what I read and find ways and means of improving my knowledge and effectiveness in my job. I don't care whose winning the World Series, politics, food etc. Do the three criteria mentioned remind you of anything? Hopefully this site! My aim is to help people in their day to day role as Domino developers. Occasionally I might throw in snippets of my life offline, but I struggle try to keep it relevant.
At a rough guess I'd say there's at least a hundred or more Domino blogs out there. What I don't have is the time to filter through them all. What I want is pointers towards the quality blogs out there. Do you know of any that fit my criteria? Even if it's your own, I don't mind you posting about that. If you're not in the OPML already please don't be offended.
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Have you checked out Ajaxian? It's not Domino strictly, but it is very web dev focussed... a bit bleeding edge at times but a good resource for a wide variety of contributor's ideas about asynch' web.
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From the "other side of the isle", chris-linfoot.net is a great read for developers who have any server administration they are accountable for. I can speak to admins now with above average admin knowledge (for a developer) thanks to Chris. Plus I get better heads ups about security concerns that affect me than I do from the "mainstream media".
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Rocky Oliver is a really good one to follow; he's actually (now) an IBM employee in charge of the Notes/SAP initiative.
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Hey Jake, personally I found your blog among the best Domino related 'open-source' ideas for development.
What I did was to get some of the Domino bloggers from the Brill's blogroll, I trust his experience :)
You have to understand that keeping a blog with your req. requires bright Notes people, with time to spend updating their blogs ...
Hi Jake,
Just emailed you my OPML file, hope its useful.
Thanks for the additions. I am definitely in the same camp as you when it comes to on/off topic. There have been some good "Domino" blogs that went too political.
interfacematters.com has some very thoughtful articles. He doesn't update as often as you might like, but the quality is good vs some bloggers who post constantly for any reason.
Codestore is one blog I always check daily. I have an A list that I check twice a day and then a much larger B list that I check once or twice a week.
Please post your new OPML when it's done.
You may want to check out {Link} This was started up after Lotusphere as an intiative to help everyone find bloggers who blog about Domino.
There is a new interface due in a couple of days which will provide easier navigation, and rss to the registration list, but you can troll through the current list (approx 140 registered) and see if any take your fancy.
It's self registration, so I can't comment on how accurate their descriptions are of their blogs, but it should give you somewhere to start.
I've recently discovered a Domino blog that seems interesting: Lotus Notes on Web 2.0 {Link}
Hi Jake!
I second Sandra's comment...Lotus Notes on Web 2.0 is really nice...William is doing some good stuff there!
Rocky ({Link} has excellent technical content.
A nice way to keep abreast of the goings on in the Notes community is the Taking Notes podcasts ({Link} hosted by Bruce and Julian.
@Ed: Thanks for the comment about interfacematters! I agree...I don't post enough, but I am trying really hard just to post stuff that is useful so you don't have to read about my dog, what I had for lunch, etc.! :-D Not that there is anything wrong with that, but I'm trying to increase the signal vs. noise. Codestore is still one of my favs, but I guess Jake already knows about that one ;-) Cheers...
Thanks Sandra and Chris for those kind words. Jake's blog is definitely one of best Lotus technical blog around. Codestore is definitely setting a high standard for all the bloggers out there.
I will definitely try hard to keep up :)
Thanks to those of you who bigged up this site. After all these years it still means a lot to me to hear praise.
@William. You're now in my Domino folder ;o) Based on what I've seen so far it looks very promising and right up my street.
Your site is the only addition I've made. It seems a shame that I can only find one new Domino blog to add. Surely there's more out there.
I've been finding useful stuff here
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