Bloggers are entrepreneurs at heart. James Governor’s Monkchips » Carter and The Devil in the Detail: Today there are the established firms (e.g., AMR, Forrester, Gartner and IDC) that have been around since the 1980’s that on the surface have not changed all that much.
Then there are the insurgents like Gartner alumni Vinnie Mirchandani at Deal Architect and James Governor of Redmonk with his Monkchips blog who claim that that they are becoming just as influential as the dinosaur firms. As a consequence, we in the AR community should pay just as much attention to them as old firms. - Carter Lusher, head of analyst relations, HP. I would prefer to see myself as a mammal than an insurgent, given I have no interest in taking up arms. I have been making a conscious effort not to play the David and Goliath card lately, which is one reason Carter’s choice of words surprised me a bit.
A bit of context: I recently received an email from Carter pointing to his blog, which I assume means he wants to open a dialogue on the subject of the changing nature of IT advisory and influence. Top 50 analyst bloggers. Edit (20 June) – the league table has been updated with a new entry in the top 5 and a new leader in the top spot – link.
This league table is a global ranking of the top 50 English-language analyst blogs. This method of communication has increasingly been used with great effect by the analyst community to engage in conversations.