I recently sent an internal Email with some of my favorite educational (technology centric) web links.  Here is a copy for your enjoyment.

Looking for good reading material, here are my suggestions:

• http://storagebloggers.pbwiki.com/
• http://www.bloglines.com/public/datastoragebloggers
• http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/
• http://communities.vmware.com

If you like the content that Storage magazine has to offer save a tree and look at this online publications from Tech Target:

• http://searchstorage.com
• http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/
• http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/
• http://searchcio.techtarget.com/
• http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/
• http://searchstoragechannel.techtarget.com/
• And many more….

If you want to absorb the most content in the shortest amount of time I highly recommend Podcasts….  These are a few of my favorites:

• http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org
• http://revision3.com/
• http://twit.tv
• http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1019
• http://www.news.com/2030-11424_3-5845846.html

Other great online resources:

• http://www.slideshare.net/ - great place to pick up presentations
• Of course YouTube and Google Video are good sources as well
• http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=emc+software&sitesearch=

How to increase you computer aptitude – Must watch documentaries (all can be downloaded to your iPod)!

• 3 part series – Triumph of the Nerds
• Part 1 – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2539790754467363791
• Part 2 – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5444663153778650128
• Part 3 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8579920210107554913
• 3 part series – Nerds 2.0
• Part 1 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4599819258094767185
• Part 2 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2534997893350167670
• Part 3 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8944679137956601931

Understand the Open Source movement:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409 (Revolution OS)
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3498228245415745977 (The Code Linux)

Hacker sub-culture:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5464925144369700635
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4116387786400792905

A site the deserves its own category:

• http://www.computerhistory.org/ (very cool place – a must see if you are in the Nor Cal area)
• http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory (great videos, speeches, etc…)

.edu:

• http://webcast.rice.edu/

o One of favorites - http://webcast.rice.edu/webcast.php?action=details&event=196

Professional Societies:

• http://acm.org (Association for Computing Machinery)

I recently sent an internal Email with some of my favorite educational (technology centric) web links.  Here is a copy for your enjoyment.