Have a look at the blog posts at one of the programming language aggregators, and see how many of the article's criticisms apply. Examples:<p><a href="http://planet.haskell.org/" rel="nofollow">http://planet.haskell.org/</a><p><a href="http://planet.python.org/" rel="nofollow">http://planet.python.org/</a><p>Blogs can be very useful.