As long-time friends know well, I like to revamp the Tekrati web sites every few years. A 2008 refresh began in May, but was sidelined almost immediately by personal priorities. I’m not inclined to hold everything back for a full relaunch this time. We’ll take it step by step, starting today.

The first change takes place right here with an expansion of the Keeping Tabs blog. I’ll continue posting opinion-editorial pieces on the analyst business and analyst relations here as usual. In addition, you’ll also find related Tekrati content here. This includes Analyst Business news, Tekrati directory updates, and the return of Tekrati coverage of select analyst events and appearances. Bringing this content together in one place makes sense. You can opt in to the RSS feed, or get updates via an email newsletter (see the opt in beneath the “recent posts” in the sidebar).

As you can tell, the Keeping Tabs blog will stay focused on the high tech industry analyst community.

My other blog, Sway, will focus on the broader world of buy-side influencers, within tech and beyond. It’s part and parcel of my role at Influencer50. I’ll continue to cross-publish the AR-focused posts from Sway to this blog.

I hope you’ll check out both blogs, and let me know what you think.

Continuing from yesterday’s post, here is a list of the blogs deleted from the directory during March, April and May.

The list is a bit long. It includes normal archiving — bloggers leaving analyst jobs, starting new blogs, restricting reader access. Plus, it includes my first pass at culling blogs that had grown dormant, based on the published blog roll logic. Even then, I made exceptions as seemed appropriate.

In a few cases, analyst bloggers have signaled that they intend to revitalize their blogs. Some are shifting to other types of social media.

Let me know if you disagree with your blog (or any other blog) being on this list. Flag up those that ought to be. Your comments are welcome.

In no particular order:

Craig Burton: logs, links, life, and lexicon
CCID Consulting’s Blog

Open Source Unleashed
The Going Visual Blog
Dan Sholler’s Musings
straydogz
The Ombudsman Blog
Content Technology CTO Blog
Inescapable Data
MobileTV-View
Ubertrends
My Lappy
ReinventingSF.com
China Trends
JupiterResearch Conversations
Storage Takeaways
David Adams’ MobileStartup
Tabor Research Blog
IPNetworkView
Dortch’s Digressions
JupiterResearch Weblog - Peter Sargent
JupiterResearch Weblog - Joe Laszlo

Blackfriar Blog
Forrester Infrastructure and Operations Council
Nick Selby’s Blog
Soreon Web-log
I, Analyst
My Life as a CRM Diva

I’ve been remiss in sharing updates to Tekrati’s Directory of Analyst Blogs. Here are the blogs added during March, April and May. Check back tomorrow (night) for a lis of the blogs deleted.

As always, some of these blogs are new, some have authors new to the analyst ranks, and others are simply new to me. Those with valid feeds are also included in Tekrati’s blog rolls and the directory OPML.

The Tekrati Directory of Analyst Blogs and OPML is a freely available service. No one pays to get listed here, no one pays to use the directory or OPML. Your help is much appreciated. Please help as you can, by sharing tips on blogs/bloggers that are missing, acknowledging your use of the directory/OPML as appropriate, and spreading the word.

Thanks!
Barbara

Tekrati’s Analyst Blogs Directory - Adds during March, April and May 2008

Company: BKI Media
Bena Roberts’ group publishes two blogs: GoMo News, and Mobile Insight and Search.

Company: Burton Group
Burton Group launched a new service and a new blog: Data Management Strategies features Chris Haddad, Joe Maguire, and Peter O’Kelly. The Executive Advisory Blog completes the service-blog alignment and features Chris Howard and Mike Rollings. Two personal blogs new to me: Kirk Knoernschild’s kirkk.com and Larry Cannell’s Cannell.org.

Company: CCS Insight
Geoff Blaber, Tom Byrd, Paolo Pescatore, and Ben Wood blog at CCS Insight Blog.

Company: Data Mobility Group
Joe Martins blogs at The Saltworks, while Robin Harris blogs at Storage Bits (at ZDNet).

Company: Enterprise Mobility Matters
Philippe Winthrop is working independently since departing Aberdeen Group. His blog is his business site, Enterprise Mobility Matters.

Company: Enterprise Strategy Group
ESG has fired up a few more employee blogs: Brian Babineau’s IT BULLETins, and Mark Bowker’s Liquefying IT. Heidi Biggar returned to blogging at Driven to Tiers, then left the building, all during this 3-month window.

Company: Forrester Research
Mary Beth Kemp and Peter Kim launched Forrester - The Future Of Agencies Blog.

Company: Gartner
Thomas Otter, of Vendorprisey blog fame, joined Gartner. Meanwhile, news to me: Jeffrey Mann has been publishing a personal blog, Jeff and Hennie’s Stuff. Hat tip to his Twitter profile.

Company: IDC
New to me: Rachel Happe’s personal blog, The Social Organization. Hat tip to Jay Andersen at Blanc & Otis.

Company: Nemertes Research
Irwin Lazar is participating in TechWeb’s Enterprise 2.0 Blog, the replacement for the Collaboration Loop blog.

Company: NPD Group
Sam Bhavnani shares a different kind of expertise at his personal blog, Got Tannins?

Company: Premonvision
Carl Gressum is blogging and doing business as Premonvision, following his departure from Ovum. Hat tip to Jonny Bentwood, Edelman.

Company: RedMonk
Finally added the RedMonk Radio Podcast, and two blogs by the newest ‘Monk, Tom Raftery: Lower (Carbon) Footprint and Tom Raftery’s Social Media. Drop by to wish Tom good beginnings at Greenmonk and his new diggs in Spain.

Company: Sandy Kemsley
New to me but well established in enterprise circles: Column 2 by Sandy Kemsley. She’s also posts occasionally to Enterprise Irregular.

Company: SharpBrains
If you plan on using your brain for several years, get it on a regular maintenance program. It’s as easy as reading a blog. Alvaro Fernandez offers links and insights at the SharpBrains blog.

Company: Society for New Communications Research
Jen McClure publishes SNCR’s New Communications Review and on occasion updates a personal blog, Jen McClure’s Ruminations.

Company: The 451 Group
Two blogs debuted: The 451 Take on on information management, Too much information (yes, that’s the title) by Nick Patience and Kathleen Reidy. Also, Plausible Deniability by Steve Coplan, Paul Roberts, and Nick Selby.

Company: The Kelsey Group
Peter Krasilovsky rejoined TKG. He maintains his personal blog on local meida, Local Onliner, and also contributes to The Kelsey Group company blog.

Company: Yankee Group
In February, Carl Howe and Andrew Jaquith began publishing Notes from Anywhere. Since then, the Yankee Group Blog has further transformed from an Emily Green CEO blog into a group blog. Carl and Andrew cross-post at both blogs. Read and comment where you like.

451 Group security guru Nick Selby has packed in his personal blog, in light of the additional expectations of his recent promotion and the launch of a new company blog on security.

It’s funny how you get attached to some blogs. I was partial to that one. Nick, I’ll miss your waggish wit. I trust we’ll see hints of it surface in your posts at the new blog.

Meawhile, I’m dutifully adding two 451 blogs to the directory: one on security and one on information management.

I’ll summarize all the blog directory adds and deletes in the normal monthly update post, right around April Fool’s day.

I’ve finally defined the new, improved “blogroll logic” for the Tekrati analyst blogs directory. The first rule going into effect disqualifies all blogs that have not had at least two posts per month for the last four months. These blogs will be gone by Monday morning, San Francisco time.

The complete qualification logic with regards to positing activity:
* Blogs have at least two original posts per month for the last four calendar months.
* Newly minted blogs get a four-month honeymoon, starting with their inaugural posting.
* Blog deletions will be listed in the monthly “directory update” post, here in the Keeping Tabs blog.
* Send requests for inclusion/re-listing in the blogs directory to me at editor, here at tekrati.

Grab the OPML today, if you want your own personal archive of those sleepers.

Your thoughts on this policy are most welcome.

During February, I added 9 blogs to Tekrati’s Directory of Analyst Blogs, and archived 1.

February adds

Some are new, some are newly discovered.

Company: FAO Research
Lisa Ross formally announced her first blog, Outsourcing Perspectives. It debuted with quite a bit of content and comment.

Company: Forrester Research
The title says it all: George F. Colony’s Blog: Counterintuitive. He launched the blog with several posts about Davos — personal takes on the who and why, a bit about his own agenda there. The blog will feel familiar to fans of his long-running “My View” columns and newsletters.

At this point, Green IT Sourcing by Euan Davis and Christopher Mines, is added as a vote of encouragement. Don’t let this one die.

Also, check out Wicked Flavory, a personal blog on local/organic foods, by Kerry Bodine. Hat tip on that one to Jeremiah Owyang, who solicited coworker blogs and faves for submission to Jonny Bentwood’s Top Analyst Blogs.

Company: Greentech Media
Scott Clavenna and (primarily) editor Daniel Englander have been busy blogging at Green Light, an extension to the company’s cleantech/greentech industry media and research.

Company: Guidewire Group
The original company blog has been replaced with The Guidewire, written by CEO Chris Shipley and analyst Carla Thompson. Also, check out Carla’s personal blog, Sharp Skirts.

Company: Jupiter Research
At last, a Jup analyst with a personal blog. John Lovett’s personal blog, Musings on Web Site Technologies and Operations, came to my attention when he criticized and linked to one of my posts.

Company: RedMonk
Greenmonk Associates, a blog by RedMonk James Governor. Hat tip to Jonny Bentwood’s Top 100 Analyst Blogs, for finding this one.

Blogs archived in February

Just one: Chris Shipley’s Guidewire Connection, replaced by the new blog.

This is a community directory. Please help.

On February 29th, the directory contained 267 blog listings. Those with valid feeds are also included in Tekrati’s blog rolls and the directory OPML.

The Tekrati Directory of Analyst Blogs and OPML is a freely available service.

Please support this effort by sharing tips on blogs/bloggers that are missing, acknowledging your use of the directory/OPML as appropriate, and spreading the word.

Thanks!
Barbara

During January, I added 14 blogs to Tekrati’s Directory of Analyst Blogs, moved 2 bloggers to new companies, and archived 10 blogs.

January adds/moves

Some are new, some are newly discovered.

Company: Alfred Poor’s HDTV Resource Center
HDTV Almanac by Alfred Poor

Company: AMR Research
Blogging Phil Fersht came out of the Tekrati archives when he returned to the analyst ranks in January:
The Outsourcing Blog Horses for Sources
IT Services and Outsourcing, hosted at ZDNet

Company: Broadband Directions
Will Richmond replaced the BroadbandVideo360 blog with VideoNuze

Company: Brockmann and Company
Welcome Peter Brockmann to the Tekrati directories. He blogs at Communications

Company: Chilmark Research
John Moore is another analyst who emerged from the Tekrati archives in January. Welcome his new company to the Tekrati directories and catch up at Chilmark Research

Company: Corporate Integrity
Michael Rasmussen moved from Forrester Research to the independent life in December. He’s blogging at: Corporate Integrity, LLC

Company: Farpoint Group
I finally caught up with Craig Mathias’ blog, hosted at Network World: Craig Mathias’s Blog

Company: Forrester Research
Tom Grant joined Forrester and launched the new Forrester blog, Forrester Product Management Blog
James Kobielus, still a poet at heart, made the switch from Current Analysis to Forrester. He blogs on at James Kobielus’ Blog

Company: Gilbane Group
At Gilbane, new practice area = new blog: XML Technologies and Content Strategies, led by Bill Trippe.

Company: Hurwitz & Associates
Marcia Kaufman joined other Hurwitz bloggers: Marcia Kaufman’s Weblog

Company: Monash Research*
Yet another blog by Curt Monash: Strategic Messaging

Company: NPRG
Terry Barnich and Craig Clausen are podcasting. Registration required: NPRG Conversations

Company: Opus Research
A long overdue welcome to Dan Miller and Opus Research. Dan and Greg Sterling blog at Local Mobile Search

Company: Pacific Data Works
Binstock on Software by Andrew Binstock. I had listed him under Camden up until this year.

Company: Storage Strategies Now
Finally, welcome Deni Connor to the official analyst ranks and analyst blogger ranks to boot: Storage Strategies Now

Blogs archived in January

Digital Investor blogs: all listings archived, due to change in business focus
Forrester Applications and Program Management Council: subscription required
3D3G: blogger left Pyramid Research
/Messengers: Stowe Boyd has replaced this particular blog with Facebook presence as an experiment
Semico’s MAP Model blog: replaced by PDF
Peter Lacy’s Weblog: no longer an industry analyst
Anatomy of a Shovel News Feed: Robyn Weisman no longer associated with Beagle Research
Graham Brown’s Journal: company sites taken down for relaunch

This is a community directory. Please help.

On January 31st, the directory contained 259 blog listings. Those with valid feeds are also included in Tekrati’s blog rolls and the directory OPML.

The Tekrati Directory of Analyst Blogs and OPML is a freely available service.

Please support this effort by sharing tips on blogs/bloggers that are missing, acknowledging your use of the directory/OPML as appropriate, and spreading the word.

Thanks!
Barbara

Ed: Corrected “Monash Information Services” to “Monash Research”. 5 Feb 2008.

During December, two blogs written by analysts were added to Tekrati’s Directory of Analyst Blogs, a freely available directory and OPML.

The December additions are:

Company: Hurwitz & Associates
Fern Halper’s data makes the world go round
Robin Bloor’s Blog: have Mac will blog

On December 31st, the directory contained 260 blog listings. Blogs with validated feeds are included in the directory OPML.

I appreciate your help in letting me know of any blogs I’ve missed.

Tekrati will resume publishing on January 2, 2008. Happy holidays!

Please note, Tekrati will be closed for the holidays, from December 22nd through January 2, 2008. Your messages and blog posts are welcome during this time, but hold the chocolates.

And the fish.

I apologize for the disruption in publishing the site and newsletter these last few weeks. I expect to catch up on breaking and backlogged content before the 22nd.