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My world has changed (and I get to share with you)

Twitter’s new list feature is one of those things that seems simple on the surface and is easily ignored.

But it has deeply changed how I get my news and how I interact with the tech community.

Click through these lists and you’ll see a different world than you would have thought possible on Twitter. This is the order I visit the lists in the morning:

Tech News Brands.
Here’s 500 tech news sources. Everything from the Wall Street Journal
to TechCrunch. Watch this list for a few minutes and you’ll be up to
date on what’s happening in tech right now. This is far more complete
than Techmeme or Google News and far faster too.

Once I’ve gotten up to date on the news, I check out the people who write and produce the news.
Here you’ll find 491 journalists and bloggers and see what the back
channel is. Often this is more interesting than the tech news brands,
but it’s lots of fun to flip back and forth while some big news story
is breaking.

Want to know what the news will be tomorrow? Well, the rich guys who
are funding companies often know what will be big and so I watch this list of 415 venture capitalists and angel investors to see what they are thinking about.

The venture capitalists, though, are fun to contrast with 447 people who founded their own companies. Often these two lists have divergent points of view that are fun to flip back and forth between.

After all that I visit the tech pundits list. These are 451 folks who love to tell you what they think happened.

If you’re an entrepreneur I’ve built a list of weapons for you.
Everything from stationary companies to Yammer, for keeping your team
up to date. This is still a list in progress, so if you have a company
that has a weapon for entrepreneurs, let me know!

What about tech company executives? I have a list of 283 who are CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, or VPs.
Lots of times news gets announced by these people. Marissa Mayer, for
instance, announced that Google had made a search deal with Twitter and
if you were following this list you would have seen that.

Here’s a list of 376 tech companies and their official PR accounts (everyone from Google to startups). I find a lot of new products here and find out about updates, too.

Web Hosting and Cloud Hosting/Cloud Computing list.
500 people, news sources, hosting companies (not just Rackspace,
either). I’m trying to keep up to date on the hosting business and
Cloud Computing and this is how I do it. Find a more complete list
anywhere.

Everyone should watch their coworkers. I do the same, with a list of 302 Rackspace employees and data sources. Have you made a list of your coworkers? Why not?

These are my core information lists that I check many times per day.

But I have a few specialized lists too:

TechStartups:
this is a list of 500 startups that most people won’t have heard of yet
(mostly early stage). I’ll work on this list more over the next few
weeks.

Geolocation
(174 people and companies). I’m interested in developers and companies
that are building new kinds of apps that use GPS and location. Things
like Foursquare and Gowalla (both of those are on this list, along with
the founders).

iPhone. 500 of the top iPhone app developers and companies and other influentials and programmers.

Twitter tools and devs
(353). Twitter has a growing ecosystem of companies and people who are
developing tools and services. This list has everyone I’ve been able to
find so far.

Tech Event Organizers (239). These are people who run events and the events that they run. Everything from Emerging Tech to BarCamps.

Video or audio shows
(101 people and shows). These are podcasts and video shows, mostly tech
centric. Everything from Leo Laporte’s shows to Gillmor Gang.

My favstar list
(500 people). These are the people I’ve clicked “Favorite” on the most.
Favstar.fm keeps track of who I favorite the most and puts them on this
list. It’s actually one of my favorite lists, but less focused than the
others.

Web Innovators (79). If you’ve done something big for the Internet I put you on this list.

Programmers
(306). I’m not sure what I’ll do with this list in the future (Twitter
limits me to 500 people and obviously there’s more than 500 programmers
in the world). But, if you are looking for what programmers think this
is a good place to start.

Most influential in tech
(225). This is my most followed list, but it’s also the most
subjective. What makes someone influential? Well, I study who has the
respect of their peers and who gets stuff done. Or, who has a bully
pulpit and can get things focused on.

Anyway, if you are looking for other lists, I highly recommend using Listorious, which is a service that tracks lists (you have to add yours, if you haven’t you really should).

If you think you should be added to a list of mine, let me know in
the comments here or drop me a line at scobleizer@gmail.com. Thanks and
hope you get some value out of these. I know that these have
dramatically changed my world.

A few other things: 1. you should check out my favorites list. Every day I put my favorite tweets on there. In about two months I’ve put 8,000 items on this list.

My favorite Twitter client is now Seesmic Web, which supports lists now (and other new Twitter features like Geolocation). The other day I interviewed the Seesmic team about these new features and the video is very telling.

Thanks Robert,

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Techies Get Friendly White House Reception – Roll Call

While President Barack Obama’s drive to curb influence-peddling has transformed the swank lobbying world into a kind of ghetto, there is an Obama Corridor on K Street, and it houses technology industry operatives galvanized by an administration that has put their issues at the top of its to-do list.

Not only do tech lobbyists have a leg up on their rivals in the business community, but they are getting the kind of solicitous treatment from Obama they never had under the business-friendly President George W. Bush.

Obama and his aides, according to numerous tech industry sources, buy into the notion that technology is special because it promotes the development of other industries. Bush viewed the tech world as just another business sector, these sources say. “He doesn’t know the difference between a silicon chip and a potato chip,” tech lobbyists were fond of whispering to each other.

“I really think that President Obama has shown he understands that innovation and technology can drive the economy,” said Josh Ackil, a partner in the Franklin Square Group, which specializes in representing high-tech companies. “It’s a different perspective,” Ackil added, saying the new view may stem from a “generational” attitude and from Obama’s successful use of technology in the campaign.

“There’s been rejuvenation,” said one Obama Corridor lobbyist. “We used to watch Bush’s State of the Union addresses and wait to see if he said the word ‘broadband’ — and if he did, that was it for the year.”

On Wednesday, Obama did his first bit of presidential glad-handing with the business community, inviting a tech-heavy group of 13 chief executive officers to the White House to share their thoughts. Among them were Micron’s Steve Appleton, Motorola’s Greg Brown, John Bryson of Edison International, Ann Mulcahy of Xerox, Sam Palmisano of IBM and Google’s Eric Schmidt.

Not wanting the tech community’s Washington reps to stink up the Roosevelt Room — where Obama met with the CEOs — the White House sequestered the lobbyists in another room with new National Economic Council Deputy Director Jason Furman. Some then joined the CEOs in the East Room for a few public remarks by Obama.

“CEOs are pretty good lobbyists, but they’re not registered,” remarked one source who spoke about the chiefs’ privileged access to Obama.

Sources say the meeting grew from a letter to the bipartisan Congressional leadership last week backing the stimulus. The letter was signed by many of those who found themselves at the White House. In a further sign of Obama’s commitment to the tech crowd, the stimulus itself includes large chunks of change for broadband, health information technology and scientific research, among other items. Even the road construction money, lobbyists point out, benefits technology companies because of sensor equipment that will be used on modern highways and the possibility of laying down wire as the roads are built.

On the Obama Corridor, sources point to an in-crowd with particularly tight ties to the Obama folks. Among them is Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti — ironically a Bush administration alumnus who is executive director of the Technology CEO Council, which includes several CEOs who met with Obama. Mehlman’s partner David Castagnetti is also close to the former Clintonites who make up Obama’s staff. And Jon Hoganson, a principal at the firm, worked for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for five years and is viewed as a key conduit to the White House. Hoganson has performed a critical role in building the type of relations between the White House and the tech officials that led to Wednesday’s CEO summit.

The first among equals of the CEOs is Google’s Schmidt, who served as an Obama transition adviser on tech issues and who has hosted Obama on Google’s campus.

Others with special reach into the West Wing, according to K Street sources, are Mark Bohannon of the Software & Information Industry Association and John Kenny and Ken Kay of the e-Luminate Group.

Several tech association officials said the Obama team was paying close attention to their needs.

Ralph Hellmann, senior vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council, noted that ITIC President Dean Garfield and other ITIC staffers have been in frequent contact with Obama aides since well before Obama was elected.

“It’s very logical that now that he’s in office, [the stimulus] largely reflects priorities that we recommended to them,” Hellmann said.

Phil Bond, president of the Technology Association of America — newly formed as a result of a merger between Bond’s old Information Technology Association of America and the American Electronics Association — said the Obama outreach to him and other techies has been significant. The administration asked his group in early December to convene a meeting of the tech lobby at AEA headquarters so that transition officials could get the gist of the industry’s needs and concerns.

It’s been better than under the Bush regime, agreed Bond, a former Bush undersecretary of Commerce.

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