I wanted to highlight a couple of blogs that I’ve added to the links on the right of the page.
Yas’ blog was already familiar to me because of a couple of posts I particularly enjoyed, including his SQL*Net Message from Client idle event blog. I just hadn’t got round to adding the link.
I knew nothing about Eric S. Emrick’s blog until he dropped me a line earlier in the week. With the Hotsos work, it took me a while to take a look, but his material looks much more in depth than anything you’ll find here and I think it’s a very worthwhile addition to the Oracle Blogosphere.
Speaking of which, I think that Oracle’s decision not to include Pete Finnigan’s blog at blogs.oracle.com is a little short-sighted and they could find themselves half-way down a particularly slippery slope before they know it. I’m not sure I’d be that concerned if my blog didn’t appear there, though. It’s not like I’m in business to make money from the blog or anything – if people find it and enjoy it then great, if they don’t, it’s hardly the end of the world. I’m sure Pete’s blog will continue to be a popular destination, regardless.
Then again, it could be considered short-sighted for Pete to omit me from his new aggregator 😉
P.S. Pete – now you know what Tom Kyte meant during his keynote when he pointed out that Oracle Corporate read your blog! Only kidding 😉
This is the second Doug Burns effect for me 🙂. The first one was after your first post about my blog. Thanks for the link Doug.
Yas,
My pleasure.
What you really need is the vastly superior ‘Tom Kyte effect’, though 😉
Cheers,
Doug
So I read the comment on Pete’s site with regard to his non-appearance on blogs.Oracle. One can understand a corporate position, but it does then beg the question of whether ‘certified’ blogs are able to reference ‘non-certified’ blogs (it is inconceivable that they would be prevented from doing this), and therefore whether they need to attach a health warning – you know, the sort of thing which increasingly appears at the foot of emails running to several sentences, telling us not to believe a word of what we have read etc etc.
Peter,
Yes, but isn’t that what this is for?
“Opinions expressed by the authors of these blogs are entirely their own and do not reflect the position of Oracle or any other corporation. Terms of Use. (Link)”
Cheers
Hi Doug,
Thanks for the mention. It wasn’t short sighted, i simply could not find quite a few blogs feed URL’s including yours on my first troll through looking for good Oracle blogs. I found it now and you are added.
cheers
Pete
It’s fine, Pete, I was just messing around 😉
The whole thing seems quite strange to me – yours must be one of the (if not *the*) most widely read and long-standing Oracle-related blogs and it doesn’t do Oracle any favours to exclude it. I would have thought it just draws even more attention to it 😉 (although perhaps only from those in the know – the casual browser might miss out)
Cheers
Doug, I agree.
In fact, I would say that Pete’s blog is the 2nd most popular Oracle blog (right after Tom’s), and definitely of high value.
On one hand, I understand Oracle being selective, which means, in time, probably all our blogs will be dropped (starting with Tim’s!)
On the other hand, as I mentioned on Eddie’s blog, the blogging community, of which Pete is a major part, is of huge value in promoting the use of Oracle. Maybe they should just take the good with the bad and include everyone.
Of course, I don’t think Pete should be added back to the Oracle list until I am added to his aggregator! 🙂
Rob,
“In fact, I would say that Pete’s blog is the 2nd most popular Oracle blog (right after Tom’s), and definitely of high value.”
Of course! I wasn’t even thinking of Tom’s 🙁 I suppose I was thinking of longevity too, and Pete probably gets readers who are just interested in Security, rather than Oracle.
Doug,
Thanks again for the post/link. I had 70 new visitors to my blog yesterday as a result!
Regards,
Eric