Below is an admittedly incomplete list of sites of friends, family and people that I follow frequently.
Friends & Family:
My close personal friends and family and their places on the web.
Kim of All Trades – The personal site of my beautiful and fearless wife who blogs about crafts and other things that interest her.
A Diabetic Chick & A Crohn’s Guy Walk into a Bar – My friend and colleague Jodi Cutler blogs about her culinary adventures and creations.
In Your Face Photography – A shingle on the web for one of my close friend’s, Mick Murray’s, photography business. His work has been featured in many places, including Spin.com.
Corcoran Light & Sound – Another shingle on the web. This time for Shane Corcoran who was my best man at my wedding this past May.
The Dobrindt Family – The personal site of my buddy and colleague David Dobrindt who posts “Random and often meaningless posts about my wonderful family written in an incoherent manner using run-on sentences with poor grammar..and other stuff.” Might be the best tagline ever.
Minky & Me – My friend and former colleague Susan Bisson Andersen blogs about her adventures with her young and adorable daughter.
Oliver Siodmak’s Rants & Raves – The personal web site of my friend and colleague Oliver Siodmak and his thinking about life and technology.
The Schmitt Free Press – My buddy John Schmitt who describes his site as “A Futile Attempt @ Meaningful Web Content”
Frequently Followed:
An incomplete list of people on the Web (excluding those above) who consistently inspire and educate me.
Tara Hunt (aka missrogue) – Tara wrote the book “The Whuffie Factor.” She’s a thought leader and practitioner in the community marketing arena.
Jane McGonigal – Researcher and game designer working to change the world through the application of game design to real life. See my post here for more.
Joshua Porter – Joshua Porter is a user experience designer focusing on social web applications who coined “The Del.icio.us Lesson” and who wrote the book “Designing for the Social Web.“