During the arduous task of searching, vetting, and selecting startups for the Under the Radar stage, we rely on a number of sources to keep us updated on the cloud and IT industries. Unless you are a career IT-er or spend all day tinkering with new technologies, it can be difficult to gain clarity in all this cloudiness.

Here is a list of our favorite bloggers, journalists and tweeters that we can go to for the low down on cloud computing…

• George Crump and Kurt Marko – Plug into the Cloud/Information Week - @storageswiss, @krmarko
• James Urquhart - The Wisdom of Clouds/CNET - @jamesurquhart
• Jeremy Geelan – Ulitzer Blog – @jg21
• Steve Gillmor – Gillmor Gang – Salesforce Blog – @jamesgillmor
• Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz, & Andrew Nusca - ZDNet Between the Lines – @ldignan, @sammyd, @editorialiste
• Phil Wainwright – ZDNet Software as a Service
• Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney – ZDNet Virtually Speaking – @dkusnetzky
• Dave Linthicum – Cloud Computing – @davidlinthicum
• Jon Brodkin – NetworkWorld/InfoWorld – @jbrodkin
• Alex Williams – ReadWriteCloud and ReadWriteEnterprise – @alexwilliams
• Krishnan Subramaian & Zoli Erdos – CloudAve – @ZoliErdos, @krishnan
• Chris Preimesberger – eWeek Storage Station – @editingwhiz
• Robert Scoble – Sobleizer – @scobleizer
• Derrick Harris & Stacey Higginbotham – GigaOm Cloud - @derrickharris, @gigastacey
• Chirag Mehta – CloudComputing – @chirag_mehta
• Geva Perry – Thinking Out Cloud – @gevaperry
• John M WIllis – IT Management & Cloud Blog – @botchagalupe
• Bernard Golden & Michael Bullock – CIO – @bernardgolden
• Alan Williamson – Alan.blog-city – @arwilliamson
• Craig Balding – CloudSecurity - @craigbalding
• Ben Kepes – The Diversity Blog – @benkepes
• Werner Vogels – All Things Distributed – @werner
• MR Rangaswami & Kamesh Pemmaraju – Sandhill blog – @mrsandhill, @kpemmaraju

Who do you follow? Let us know…

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