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My perspective on “Good” Vendor Blogs vs. “Bad” Vendor Blogs…

     I find a few blogs very interesting, and I tend to make them a Priority when new posts hit my Feed Demon reader.  Some of these blogs are Storage Vendor blogs, many of them what I would consider to be “Good”.  Some of them are Storage Vendor blogs that are “Bad”.  How do I qualify the two?  Can I gain insight to the IT Industry, a person’s person life, or is it a post that should really be considered an advertisement for X vendors products again?  I implore potential end-users, perspective customers, to take any vendors blog with the proverbial “grain of salt”, for that matter, any blog in general.

     Take my blog as an example.  I’ve owned the URL for a few years (since it’s inception), and have been posting to it for roughly 2 years.  In that time I’ve been employed by three different companies, two of which were up-starts/start-ups.  I openly post my Career history in my About-Steven Schwartz page, and if you search the history and ownership of this blog, you’ll notice it is privately owned, and there are pretty much no ads (except for the occasional Qumana linking when I used that off-line writer).  The one main point, that I believe shows through in most of my blog entries, is my passion for technology.  Another prime example of the openness of this blog is the open posting of opposing “comments”.  Hey, if you disagree with something I post, comment, cross blog and trackback.  However, if you chose to make personal comments about me, or my knowledge, in petty defense of “your” product, it is transparent to educated readers.

     So, when reading anything online, do your own research, read what is being linked to, and take away your own opinions.  As for my “Good” vs. “Bad” lists?  You’ll never get that out of me, everyone needs their own list.