My Top 20 Technology Related Blogs of 2008, Whats Yours?

We are heading towards the end of 2008 and I thought I would put together a list of the top 20 technology blogs I have read and subscribe too for 2008. This list is pretty much straight from my Google Reader list and if you know of any blogs I should subscribe to for 2009, please drop me a comment below to let me know.

Techcrunch has to be the most dominant technology blog in the industry at the moment. It was founded by Michael Arrington and if you haven’t heard of this site, then I will be surprised. Arrington has to be one of the most arrogant guys in technology today, but man does this guy enjoy winning, and that is the main reason why his site is so dominant.

Mashable used to be just a blog covering all the news from the major social networks, but over time it has developed into one of the leading players in the Web 2.0 News space. Lately, the site seems to cover a lot more technology news and analysis than ever before, bit with over 10 authors it is a great source for getting various opinions.

TheNextWeb is the European technology blog of choice for me, apart from Crenk of course. TheNextWeb talk about the happenings from all over the technology industry with a specific focus on Europe and the Netherlands in particular.TheNextWeb also hold a tech conference in Amsterdam every year that is just simply brilliant.

DailyBlogTips is a great blogging resource. If you are looking to get into blogging or trying to find out how to best grow your site, then DanielScocco over at DailyBlogTips is your man. As well as DailyBlogTips Daniel has been able to grow a great network of blogs that can help writers and bloggers alike.

Makeuseof is the best ‘how to’ technology site on the net. Makeuseof only reviews free, cool, and useful technology products or sites. Makeuseof has over 10 writers in which publish three articles per day that can help even the highly technical web user. Makeuseof also has a nice directory that can help you find the best products for a specific need.

ReadWriteWeb has to be one of the best technology analysis sites on the net today. ReadWriteWeb was started by Richard Mcmanus from New Zealand, who previously wrote for Zdnet. These days Richard has hired some of the best technology writers from around the globe and this has proven to be a huge asset forReadWriteWeb.

CenterNetworks is the leading technology news blog that covers New York and surrounding areas. CenterNetworks is edited by Allen Stern with a small team in various locations. CenterNetworks doesnt seem to post as much lately as they did at the start of 2008, but the quality is just amazing.

TorrentFreak has to be my favourite blog at the moment. TorrentFreak reports about everything within the turbulant world of bittorrents and p2p startups. TorrentFreak only reports about scoops which means they are always on the home page of Digg, Mixx, and Reddit.

Profy is a technology news and analysis site that is starting to come into its own. Previously Profy tried to launch as a blogging platform, but I always thought they actually were more useful as a technology analysis site than a blogging platform.Svetlana is the editor over at Profy and she has been knocking out some great working over the last year.

Startupmeme is one of the newest technology news sites in the space. Startupmeme isnt nescessarily the first source to report technology news, but they seem to write about everything within the space. Since they have a quickly movingRSS feed it is a great source for a quick snapshot to what is happening in the tech industry.

Hypebot is a digital music blog that has close ties within the industry. Hypebot has been on the Cnet top 100 blogs previously and is still growing in 2008. The site itself does need a bit of a makeover, but the content is very fresh, unique and very well researched.

DigitalMusicNews is written by Paul Resnikoff and has to be one of the most well connected guys within the digital music industry. Digital Music News always seems to be one of the first blogs to come out with breaking news with the digital music space. As well as providing a great blogResnikoff has a very closely looked job board that seems to have some amazing top level jobs on there every week.

LouisGray is a Silicon Valley Blogger that writes for early adopters, technology geeks, RSS addicts and Mac freaks. Louis is a big FriendFeed lover as well as having a minor equity stake in Readburner.com. Louis has been writing about technology startups for many years now, but has only really gained attention in the last year or so.

Bub.blicio.us is a technology blog with a difference. Bub.blicio.us is published by Brian Solis who is basically a PR guy with a love for photography and technology. Bub.blicio.us provides tech reviews, but mainly pictures from the majority of technology conferences in the USA.

Lifehacker is apart of the Gawker Media group and is the leading tech blog within their group. Lifehacker is basically a how to blog in essence. Lifehacker provide great tips, ideas and reviews of technology products, posting about 20 articles per day.

MusicAlly is a digital music news site that discusses all the happenings from around the world of digital music. Digital music is one of the quickly changing markets in the currently online environment.MusicAlly is mainly a digital music information and strategy company.

Download Squad is a killer blog which is part of the weblogs inc stable. Download Squad is now apart of AOL which purchased Weblogs inc. Download Squad discusses some of the neweststartups on the web as well as providing some handy technology tips.

DailySEOblog is pretty much what it says on the can, it is a daily SEO blog written by Mani Karthik. Mani provides some interesting news about SEO for blogs as well as possible SEO plugins, themes and more.

Royal Pingdom is the blog from Pingdom.com, a website monitoring service. Royal Pingdom blog, a weblog by the staff at Pingdom about the Internet, Web development and technology, and of course our own services. They provide some great insights into sites anduptimes, load times as well as the interesting random internet articles.

HipMojo is a one man technology blog written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan. Ashkan talks about everything from basic Valley news to complete analysis of the internet video market. Ashkan has previously worked for IGN and Mamma, and VP of Sales for Askmen.com which got sold to News Corp.