I’ve updated my blogroll, which you can see near the bottom right corner of the “home page” of this blog. Some blogs have been removed, primarily because their author/owners have been conspicuously silent for long periods of time. And some new ones have been added, including the following:

• TwoPointTouch, written by London journalist Ian Delaney, who is collecting bits and pieces of Web 2.0 information for a book that he’s writing. Lots of good interviews with various Web 2.0 celebrities and notables.
• Jonathan’s Blog, written by the CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz. Schwartz typically only adds a new post once or twice a week — after all, CEO’s do have other things to do. But it certainly looks like he writes his own material, and his postings are always interesting and thought-provoking (notice I didn’t say I necessarily agree with them all!). And it’s useful to have at least one example of a real-world senior executive who feels (a) blogging is worthwhile for himself, and (b) blogging is a productive activity for his employees.
• Pogue’s Posts, written by New York Times technology columnist David Pogue. Pogue writes occasionally about new hardware/software gadgets for the Mac or Windows world, but he also writes about the latest goodies in digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 players (which, on rare occasions, actually does involve something other than iPods), and other forms of consumer technology; today’s article, for example, discussed a gadget that allows you to record old phonographic albums (several dozen of which I tearfully tossed away a week before seeing this article!) onto CD’s. In the past, I’ve traditionally read Pogue’s columns in the dead-tree version of the New York Times; but it’s handier to have it as an RSS feed, because I know where to find it, and I know that there will be lots of useful hyperlinks to click on (clicking on a hard-copy newspaper doesn’t do much, I’ve discovered).
• TechCrunch, written by Michael Arrington; the blog describes itself as “a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.” If you’re unlucky, you may see a flurry of postings that look like thinly-disguised PR announcements; but keep at it, because you’ll invariably find that Arrington does make a number of critical/assessments of startup companies and/or new products that he believes are over-hyped, under-developed, or just plain irrelevant.
• Dead2.0, author unknown, which takes a critical look at the hype associated with many of the product announcements from Web 2.0 vendors large (Google, Flickr, Myspace, Yahoo, etc.) and small (examples of which I won’t bore you with). It’s a good counterpoint to the hysterically upbeat cheeriness that one sees on many other technology blogs.
• StreetUse, written by Kevin Kelly, whose recent keynote address I described in a recent blog. StreetUse is Kelly’s blog about how technology is being used “in the street,” often in very low-tech ways — but also in incredibly creative and imaginative ways.

The only sensible way of dealing with all of this information (typically a couple hundred new postings each day from this collection of a couple dozen blogs) is with a user-friendly RSS aggregator/news-reader. I’m not in the business of recommending such things, but I’ll mention that I’ve been pretty happy with my Mac-based version of NetNewsWire; the vendor apparently has a Windows-based product called FeedDemon, but I don’t know anything about it.