Comments on: ABC, as Easy as 1,2,3: RedMonk Rankings in Analyst Top 50

By: Analyst blogging - is it worth it? « Technobabble 2.0

Analyst blogging - is it worth it? « Technobabble 2.0 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:03:14 +0000

[...] certainly seems that blogging has a huge impact. I lost count of the number of people applauding James Governor for his proactive stance in this [...]

By: Neil's point-free blog

Neil's point-free blog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:43:42 +0000

RedMonk Kicking Gartner’s Bottom…

Great to see the triumvirate of analysts at RedMonk taking the top three slots on the Technobabble 2.0 Analyst Blogs rankings. I met James Governor at EclipseCon this year, and it was refreshing to hear an industry analyst dishing out opinions for less…

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links for 2007-06-20 » SDLC Blog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:43:58 +0000

[...] James Governor’s Monkchips » ABC, as Easy as 1,2,3: RedMonk Rankings in Analyst Top 50 Congrats to Redmonk guys! You rock! (tags: redmonk analyst) [...]

By: Jonny Bentwood

Jonny Bentwood — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:19:56 +0000

Congrats James

What I find most interesting from the league table is how companies like Gartner are being paid to advise on blogging yet can’t get to grips with it themselves.

The analyst model is in flux and I fully expect this medium or similar ones to be far more important in the years ahead.

By: ARcade : Top 50 analyst bloggers

ARcade : Top 50 analyst bloggers — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:51:57 +0000

[...] aren’t transparent) and Bloglines tells me that Nate Elliot has 179 subscribers, as opposed to James Governor’s 114, yet Jonny gives James the nod on that part of the survey, what’s more Mr Bentwood [...]

By: Ric

Ric — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:13:27 +0000

Hey - too cool for school, James!

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:25:52 +0000

This is interesting on several levels. I won’t comment on how the criteria measure up except to say they represent a particular view of influence that most would agree is restricted to those that use those forms of measurement in the first place. Nothing wrong with that as long as the limitations are understood.

At a Microsoft event last week, several ‘prominent’ analysts knew nothing of Facebook, Twitter and other social software. They readily agreed that the influence of the traditional analyst is on the wane. Myself and a ’softie were having fun doing the Twitter thing and explaining the value of those kinds of conversation from a business perspective. Mouths were agape but at least one of the analysts got it.

Gartner is genuinely exposed. And I don’t say that out of malice but out of the obvious fact you can’t play both sides of the fence and hope to have a viable long term business. Do end user companies buy their ’stuff’ in large quantities any longer? If my reading of the analyst tea leaves is remotely correct, they’ve moved over to the sell side and there is continuing pressure on ’sales.’

As someone once said: ‘We live in interesting times.’