Happy New Year, advogato!
I had a wonderful New Year celebration with my wife, in the mists of the gunpowdery fog that is Kreuzberg, Berlin at this time of year, at our favourite pub, Max und Moritz. Now just 3 weeks to go before our daughter is born.

Computer science weblogs
Probably the academic discipline that gets best value out of the weblog phenomenon is law, with a good number of excellent weblogs devoted to both general and specialist subjects. Computer science is pretty disappointing by comparison, but here's a selection of some weblogs that are battling the odds. (There are also some weblogs here by non-computer scientists, which I tend to count as one of us if there is a heavy language design focus).

Lambda the Ultimate This is just clearly the best computer science weblog out there; it has no close competitors. Here's a selection of excellent posts, taken almost at random:

• State and Modularity
• Logic Programming in the Context of Multiparadigm Programming
• Perspectives
• Polyglot Programming
• Practical Theory
• A Survey of Object-Oriented Concepts
• Tuples + Objects + Infosets =Too Much Stuff!

Pinku Surana's Green Hat Journal: probably my favourite individual blog by a computer scientist. Some of his best past posts:

• Stratego/XT
• Interface Compilation
• Bayesian Learning
• OS & Continuations
• Objects have failed
• Box/unbox on .NET
• Exemplar based programming

Matt Jadud's weblog How do you compile?, who also runs the Cool Stuff in Computer Science weblog. Focus on didactics of computer science; some sample posts:

• Respect for the Teacher: parts [1] and [2]
• Life after the PhD
• +1, -1, Net: Zero, or, when teaching goes wrong...
• Pedagogic programming languages and environments #1

Bill Clementson's Blog, a Common LISPer. Some samples:

1. Continuation-based web frameworks
2. Kenny Tilton's Cells
3. A CLer learns scheme

Ian Wehermann's the maine paige. Sample posts:

1. Generalized logic and proof
2. on the web's first semantic application

John D. Mitchell's blog (he also keeps an artima.com blog. Java programmer. Samples:

• Java's Inferiority Complex
• Humble Beginnings
• The "Community" is Always Right?

Bjorn Borud's Random Scribblings; samples:

• On mapping ISBN onto DNS
• On finally realizing what bothers me about wiki systems

Gordon Weakliem's 80/20; samples:

• Worse is Better
• SSAX Resources

Will Benton's Free Variable. Sample post: Thinking like a computer scientist

Cay Horstmann's rather sparse artima.com blog; sample post: Some objects are more equal than others

Jim Coplien's Artima.com artima.com blog has just this single entry, which makes it more an essay than a weblog: Teaching OO: Putting the Object back into OOD.

Katz's Web; sample on Inference Web: Explanations on the Semantic Web

More to follow: I'll keep this post updated. Recommendations sought; you can email me at cas@janeway.inf.tu-dresden.de.