WebHostingTalk is a community forum of web hosts, data centers and web pulishers. In the short time I've been there I've found it a very useful learning tool.

Slashdot is a tech news blog site I visit too regularly. The editorial quality has fallen off lately, and the headlines are more frequently exaggerated and misleading, but I enjoy reading the discussion of the articles and occasionally join in myself.

Aside from the news stories and the attached discussion there is a diverse culture in the Slashdot Journal system. Each registered user has a Journal section linked through is username, and each user can designate other users as friends or foes, and they can tell who are friends of friends and who are foes of friends by icons by everyone's usernames. This has led to a very interesting web journal community.

I've been following the journal of user TechnoLust for a while; this guy is very entertaining as he's farily deeply religious but regales us with tales of women in his hot tub and his love adventure with an underaged teen.

I read the following users' activity occasionally:

• Sanity is Ian Clarke of the Free Network project
• fvis the developer of nmap
• Bruce Perens is an influential person in open source software
• Alan Cox is a developer of Linux
• CleverNickName is Will Wheaton of Star Trek:Next Generation fame and is rather funny as an adult