Below are the four websites that I, as an Information Technology Manager, visit every single day and why.  I believe that they publish information that no Information Professional should be without for even 24 hours.  They are the first four bookmarks on every computer that I use for work.  I highly recommend them to you.

  1. CIO.com is my top pick. This is such a deep site that you need to spend some time to become familiar with its contents.  Its main page — or news site — is one of the best at reporting industry shaking events.  Don’t be fooled though, there is no sensationalism at this business oriented site.  If it is on their front page — it should matter to you.  Take special note of their analysis and drill-down tabs.  Combined with their free white papers section, I think those three tabs form the best continuing education collection on the web for CIOs and IT Managers.
  2. Slashdot.org .  OK, so their tag line is "Slashdot – News for nerds, stuff that matters", but that should not deter you. Here you have a web page that is run by an editorial team.  Members recommend stories to the team and they post and comment on them.  The combination of the best of the web, with intelligent tech-savy commentary, along with hundreds of attached comments from some very smart IT folks produces a real diamond in the rough of a CIO type site.  I am not suggesting that everything that they publish is IT heavy, but if it is an IT story, then they have got it covered.
  3. Arstechnica .  In their own words, "At Ars Technica—the name is Latin-derived for the "art of technology"—we specialize in original news and reviews, analysis of technology trends, and expert advice on topics ranging from the most fundamental aspects of technology to the many ways technology is helping us enjoy our world. We work for the reader who not only needs to keep up on technology, but is passionate about it."  That about sums it up for me…
  4. Digg.com – Technology Industry News . While technically this is not a single website, but actually a news aggregator, I still think that it should be on your visit list everyday.  If you are not familiar with Digg.com, they allow members to recommend other websites anywhere on the web — a process that they call "digging" them.  Each member may only digg a single URL once.  This has the effect of causing the wheat to separate rapidly from the chaff of the Internet.  Since the Digg user base definitely is a bit skewed towards the high technology sector, it means that they collection of the best IT industry  news is usually the best.  What is even more useful is that nothing every disappears from Digg.com.  While the default view is based on votes per day, you can easily filter for the best of the week, month, year, or even ever.

Do you have other sites that you recommend?  Why do you like them?  Happy Thinking…

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 20, 2009 ©Scott Coughlin .

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