You should already be aware of Planet VMware and Planet V12n for all your virtualization blog needs — technical tips, industry news, commentary.
But now there’s a new way to scan the best virtualization blogs — virtualization.alltop.com. The Planets present a "river of news" linear reverse chronological aggregation, which is a great way for getting a sense of the last week’s zeitgeist or catching the day’s breaking news, but if your favorite blogger hasn’t updated in the last few days their latest post may get lost in the noise.
Alltop takes a different strategy — their sites give you a grid of blogs and the latest 5 post titles from each. That makes it a good way to check out what’s going on with a particular news source, and since it just includes titles, you can scan pretty quickly. Hover over a topic to get an excerpt.
They also had the good taste to steal liberally from the blogroll at Planet V12n, which shows they have taste. I do think they probably aren’t virtualization experts, because they are definitely missing some feeds. (Like Alessandro at virtualization.info — probably the best-known of all the virtualization blogs…)
Guy Kawasaki was one of the founders of the company, which they liken to a "magazine rack." I thought it was a stupid idea when I saw the first set of topics, but they’re growing on me. The range of Alltop sites are quite wide, but since you’re reading this you might also be interested in the sites covering enterprise and cloud computing.
