Bloggers wish list

Toby Bloomberg over on theĀ Diva marketing blog has a wish list from a bunch of bloggers about what they’d like to see in 2006 on blogs.

Me?

I’d like to see good information make a comeback. Reviews anyone? DPreview.com has awesome ones on cameras. What if we had a review site like that for software?

And, where’s Christopher Brumme? His 11,000-word posts used to have the developers swooning like mad everytime he posted. It’d be great to see people actually sharing more of what they know in 2006. Yeah, I wish I was better on both of these counts.

Here’s a good example: Clemens Vasters has a lengthy series of posts on teaching Indigo to do REST/POX. Clemens is the author of Das Blog, the blogging tool my boss uses (and loves). His knowledge impressed someone, cause he’s joining Microsoft in February.

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