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
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
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:
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.