Hanselminutes Podcast 25 - Scott's .NET Blogroll (for July 2006 at least)
My twenty-fifth Podcast is up. This episode is a discussion of a few of my favorite blogs. I had a HUGE list and ended up having to really chop it down in order to make it fit within our (my) time limit. Remember, Hanselminute tries not to waste your time!
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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Appreciate the link love (or is it "pod love").
My favorite non-tech blog right now: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/
Anyway, not a bad idea, but $1 per email is all I want to spend, how many words a $1 gives me? ;-)
Al
On the show you mention the BCLTeam WebLog, but you forgot to list the link on the site!
http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/
that newsgroups were dead - I think he's wrong on this. Blogs are not
a replacement (nor have they replaced) usenet groups.
Most times when you want an answer on how to do something, or why
something works a certain way, usenet groups are probably the best (or
one of the best) places to find an answer.
Usually when I want to find something out, problems with code, etc.
the first place I check is usenet by doing a search using Google
Groups search. The majority of the time I find the answer there. If I
don't then I resort to doing a general Google web search (which
sometimes brings up results pointing to blogs). Or finally post a
question in a group.
Never had I had the need to go and search blogs for an answer. Blogs
are great to find out what people are up to now, or what their cat got
up to on the weekend, but to find answers to direct questions, usenet
is still a great resource. That one of the major roles of the
newsgroups, to ask and answer questions in groups covering specific
topics.
I think the imminent death of newsgroups is greatly exaggerated.
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Also, I second Wesner Moise and Junfeng Zhang, as well as my pal Haacked. Some of the others I don't recognize, but they'll be getting some of my sweet, sweet left-click.