ZDNet's tech blogs

There are so many technology blogs in so many different places that it's dizzying just to keep track of them, let alone read all the ones you find interesting. And for the person who isn't reading blogs all day, every day, honing in on the best can be trying.

I haven't thought about ZDNet in years, but I followed a link over to its great Mobile Gadgeteer blog, written by Matthew Miller, and subsequently discovered ZDNet's main blog page, which features more blogs than I can count -- and blogs that are way, way geeky.

My favorites so far (besides Mobile Gadgeteer, of course) are George Ou's Real World IT, which told me more about the 802.11n standard than I'd ever thought I'd know, and Garrett Rogers' Googling Google, just because of its name, and who today blogs on the "enhancements" to Google's Image Search that have already been annoying me (because I don't like anything to ever change, and because I like to know the size of the photos in the search WITHOUT having to mouse over them, as I must now). At least we're in agreement:

The way it looked previously was a lot cleaner, and honestly I don't see why it needed to be changed at all. If I was at Google, the search algorithm for images would be getting a facelift rather than the interface results are displayed on.

There's also tech pioneer Esther Dyson's Release 0.9, which I have yet to dip into, but she's an IT-journalism legend if there ever was one.

It gets geekier, with specialty blogs for Microsoft, Apple, Linux, law (yes, as in legal law), digital identity, threat chaos (I don't even know what that means), and, as I'm always saying, much, much, much more.

Great. Another fat, gushing hose of blog data ... but it's good hose water, people. And if that's all not enough, the main ZDNet page has the latest tech news.