What blogs are you reading besides mine?

It’s been a week. A very, very long week. Which means that at 4 on a Friday I’m grasping at straws for something interesting to write about. So I do what I do when I’m out of ideas, I look through the email related blogs I’m subscribed to.
A bunch of them are still active, but there’s a good dozen or so that haven’t been updated in months. I realize I’m getting most of my current news from Twitter (or, Facebook) not from my actual RSS feeds.
So what email / marketing / delivery / internet security related blogs are people reading these days? What should I add to my list to keep up to date on the pulse of the email industry?
EDIT: apparently the Akismet filter I use went berserk with the multiple links in comments. I think I’ve pulled everything they caught incorrectly. If you tried to post and it’s not showing, drop me an email at the obvious place.

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