Blogs I like

Marketing

  • Golden Practices. Interesting commentary on marketing in accountancy, law and other professional services firms.
  • David Maister. Co-author of The Trusted Advisor.
  • Creating Passionate Users. Consistently interesting posts and cool diagrams.
  • Presentation Zen. I’m trying to avoid big traffic sites, but this one’s a true gem.
  • Media Orchard. Scott Baradell’s sometimes saucy, sometimes insightful blog. Also the first to link to Bad Language (thanks Scott!).
  • Spin Thicket. Scott’s marketing/PR answer to Digg.

Reading and writing

Scitech

  • ScienceBase. A sort of one-man New Scientist from David Bradley.
  • Lawsagna. Implies pasta and the law, actually about memory and psychology.

Business

  • Escape from Cubicle Nation. Pamela Slim’s blog about entrepreneurship. She brings hope to corporate drones everywhere.
  • Guy Kawasaki’s How to Change the World. Guy’s my hero and his book ‘The Macintosh Way’ got me started in business.

Weird and wonderful

  • Got Grave? Black humour at its blackest. Hilarious.
  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Blogging from the 17th century. Courtesy of star actor and website wizard Phil Gyford.
  • Web Zen. Links to cool stuff on the web and nothing but links to cool stuff on the web.

Inside Microsoft

Geek self-help

Hard to categorise (but fun)

  • 37 Signals. Half news about their products. Half interesting non-product stuff. I love Basecamp.

Flying