Kate Brodock’s tweet about Mitch Joel’s 09 Blogs to Watch in ’09 got me thinking about the blogs I’m watching most frequently these days. Here are the first four:

• The Altimeter by Charlene Li – Charlene co-authored Groundswell, and launched her own company, Altimeter Group, to provide advisory and consulting on emerging and social technologies. She has a calm, authoritative, hype-free approach that makes her one of the strongest thinkers you can pay attention to.
• Transparent Office by Michael Idinopulos – Michael is writing some excellent articles on wiki & social software adoption in the enterprise. Well worth reading.
• The Heymarci Blog by Marci Alboher – I first started following Marci’s Shifting Careers column in the New York Times, but it was discontinued in late 2008. I like the New York Times, but this was a bad decision. Marci is an expert on building slash/careers – she wrote the book on it: One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success. Her advice has definitely helped me with my own career, and I highly recommend paying attention to her in 2009.
• The Gig by Nadira A. Hira – Nadira covers the Gen Y workforce from a first-person perspective. She’s a Gen Y-er, and does a great job both as a voice for Gen Y workers, and as an ambassador to other generations learning to embrace and understand how younger people work, and how it can mutually benefit them.

Looking for more? Check out my Blogroll, in the sidebar to the right of this article. You’ll find my favorite blogs covering topics like: Career & Workforce, Design & Branding, Digital Content & Publishing, Education Technology, Enterprise 2.0 & Wiki in Business, Marketing Insight, News, Social Media, and Wired Government & Society.