Tech News Comes in Many Flavors

There’s no doubt the global IT industry can churn out the news. We’re inundated with news sites, blogs, magazines and opinions on a daily basis. CompTIA has been doing its part to help make sense of it all through our daily SmartBrief newsletter (click here to subscribe) launched several months ago. In a very short time, SmartBrief has seen its audience grow from zero to some 50,000. Subscribers like it because it brings all their favorite sites and feeds together in one easy to use format right to you email inbox.

But if you’re a voracious consumer of news like I am you probably also go to lots of other sites at least a few times a week or month to drill down to the specifics of a story or to get a broad range of opinions. So for my inaugural blog post I’d like to pay homage to some of the sites I frequent on a daily basis in addition to all the channel related news sites we know and love. My bookmarks and feeds include many more but these are some that mix tech, variety, news and fun in a way that keeps you coming back:

Wall Street Journal Online
For pure business news there’s still nothing like it. The WSJ added a Tech section during the dot-com days and it stuck. They cover trends, IPO’s, restructurings and product announcements mostly from the Fortune 500 but they’ll grab a SMB story here and there.

CNET News
When CNET was launched the founders were smart enough to grab a number of really prime URLs including news.com. The easy to remember name has kept me a reader for more than 10 years. They’ve brought us some of the first mainstream coverage on topics like Cloud, SaaS, IP issues, Green IT and more.

MSP Mentor
I know this is a site primarily for the channel but Joe Panettieri and Amy Katz have created one of the best vertical sites on the web. The writing is lively, the content is rich and actionable. Wrap that up in a well designed easy to navigate package and you have something worth checking out as often as possible.

Engadget
There’s no better site to get your daily gadget fix than Engadget.com. Founded by Ryan Block and Peter Rojas (who did Gizmodo before that) the site still sets the gold standard for the tech nerd in all of us.

TechCrunch
If I want a site that mixes the best insights on social media trends with a 30,000 foot view of the topics buzzing through silicon valley TechCrunch is the place I like to go.

BBC Tech News
It’s a global industry. And while the WSJ does a good job nobody does global better than the Brits. The columnists and feature writers provide the offshore view we all need to keep things in perspective.

The Huffington Post
Nobody is doing a better job mixing bipartisan editorial opinion with news, video feeds and diversity across a smorgasbord of topics than the Huffington Post. While it was founded on political coverage, its grown to represent much more.

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