Blogs and stuff that rock - Early 2010 edition

My trusty clan of Meerkats, reminded me that it has been a long time since we dished out pineapples in the Thinking problem management! ratings of blogs and stuff that rock.  The ratings are reliant on the non-scientific scavenging of the Meerkats and the attitude of the cobras.  Thus without ant further fanfare, we call on Wickus Meerkat (recent star of that blockbuster Prawn 9) to open the box of pineapples and dish them out:

Five pineapples:

• ZA News (because here we can)
• Cisco IOS hints and tricks (still the most interesting Cisco blog around)
• Root Cause Analysis Blog (beats Crash investigations hands down)
  
• The IT Skeptic - A sceptical view of ITIL, CMDB and whatever catches my eye
• iBurst forum on mybroadband.co.za
• The Internet Economy (with Reuben Goldberg)
• Tomato Firmware (mosted trusted of software for my litle olde Linksys WRT54GL)
  

Four pineapples:

• PacketLife.net Blog (excellent source of cheat sheets)
  
• The Daily WTF (the most humorous of IT blogs)
• DITY Newsletter (the most practical of blogs)
  
• Bad Astronomy Blog (the best technology blog)
• Mybroadband.co.za (best breaking news for broadband and telecommunications new in ZA)
  
• Aki Anastasiou's twitter stream (best technology journalist in ZA)
  
• iTraffic Monitor (very useful traffic metering application)
  
• AVG Free (Best of the free bunch for anti-virus)
  

Three pineapples:

• BraunsBlog (the best problem management blog around)
  
• RISKS Digest (it been around a long time and is a great reference)
  
• The Hot Aisle (one of the better data center blogs around)
  
• Brad Reese on Cisco (the blog with the best pulse on networking and Cisco)
• DownThemAll!(if you only have one plug-in for Firefox, then this should be it!)
  

Two pineapples:

• Adventures in Open Source (always hoping that these guys will kick the Big Four out of their slumber)
• ZA Tech show (has its moments)
  
• Royal Pingdom (always a good read)
  
• Farmville (I have always wanted to farm potatoes)
  
• Afrigator (the best aggregator of ZA blogs)
  
• The Pineapple Society of Root Cause Analysis (it just happened by accident)
  
• TweetDeck (by far the best twitter tool)
  

One pineapple:

• Storagebod's twitter stream (no nonsense insights into storage)
  
• Eyewitness News (better news that the traditional media)
• Richmark Sentinel (a new form of news)
  
• Keo.co.za (great distraction from IT)
• TECHCENTRAL (has potential)
  
• LinkedIn (Best business web site around)
  
• Mikrotik wiki (most useful for the low end)
  
• Skype (best messaging tool)
• BraunsBlog (a great addition to the problem management landscape)
  

If you think the Meerkats have been slapgat and want to nominate a blog  or other stuff please use the comments tag below and supply a suitable motivation....