A few weeks ago I talked about reading blogs to keep up with trends. This time I thought I’d share some of the blogs I’m currently tracking. I use google reader to manage my blogs and separate every thing into folders. Here is a list of my folders with a brief description, and also a few notes about the blogs I’m tracking in them as well as at what activity level I track them at.

Development – Blogs primarily about, what else, Software development. I don’t actually track a lot here, but what I do track I tend to read through. There are a few others I track, but they post so infrequently I’m not even going to list them here.
* Coding Horor: Jeff Atwood’s blog
* Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen
* ScottGu’s Blog: Scott Guthrie’s blog (Or as Hanselman refers to him “His Gu-ness”
* iPhone Developer News: This is really just so I don’t have to get Spam for Apple.
* Martin Fowler’s “bliki”: Mostly about Agile and customer interaction. More the business of software development as opposed to the implementation.

Marketing – These are blogs I follow to try and keep up with what is being discussed in the brand and user interaction world. While I’m not a marketer I like to know what is going on in this industry. Remember that the same poeple that marketers are trying to reach work at the companies that internal systems are also interacting with. If you ignoring what people are doing and interacting with outside of work, how can you expect to be able to build systems that help and engage them in the work place. I mostly just track through these quickly.
* Adverblog: I skim this one
* Advertising Age: I skim this one too
* BuzzMachine: It’s a skimmer
* Seth’s Blog: Seth Godin’s blog. This is probably the only one in this folder that I actually make an effort to read. If you’re familiar with Mr. Godin you’ll see some influences from him in my recent posts. While I don’t always agree with him I do find him interesting and thought provoking.

Geek Tech – These are blogs about cool technology. Everyone should be familiar with these, but I don’t think anyone has time to read all the posts. Besides most of them tend to report on the same thing. I usually skim for a while an only stop on items I think are interesting.
* Endgadget
* Gizmodo
* Mashable!
* Slashdot

Well I think that’s it. There are some others I track that are way off topic here such as Comic Book Resources, but this mostly covers the technology blogs. These add up to a lot of posts in a day and a week. It’s important to keep in mind that I many of these categories I skim in a few minutes and then mark everything as read. You don’t need to kill yourself to try and stay relevant.