Did a quick list off the top of my head (for a discussion at work) of where to start to get a flavour of the technical online discussion.
http://arstechnica.com/index.ars
http://www.theinquirer.net/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
http://www.somethingawful.com/
http://www.ted.com/
http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/
http://www.andfinally.com/
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php
http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/
http://www.schneier.com/blog/
http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp
http://www.stallman.org/
http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/dickdestiny.html
http://www.newsome.org/
http://civilities.net/
http://citesandinsights.info/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/
http://www.gapingvoid.com/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://www.dilbert.com/
http://www.userfriendly.org/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic
http://www.techcrunch.co.uk/
http://www.blognation.com/
http://tompeters.com/
http://burningbird.net/
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/
http://strange.corante.com/
http://allied.blogspot.com/
http://www.giagia.co.uk/
http://radar.oreilly.com/
http://scobleizer.com/
http://www.valleywag.com/
http://www.boingboing.net/
http://gigaom.com/
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/
http://www.roughtype.com/
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
http://www.craphound.com/
http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/
http://www.lessig.org/blog/
