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Everyone here at OStatic is very honored to be recognized by PC Magazine (now exclusively on the web as PCMag.com) as one of its editors' choices of Top 100 Blogs in its annual roundup. Our sister blogs WebWorkerDaily and NewTeeVee were also named, and congratulations to their excellent editorial teams. Blogs depend more heavily on participation from the reader community than many other kinds of publishing entities, and we want to extend our most sincere thanks to the readers of OStatic for reading, participating, and even correcting us when needed. OStatic will deliver several new and exciting kinds of editorial content in 2009. Please stay tuned! PC Magazine's writeup follows, below the fold.

The end of the year is a self-indulgent time, when those who write about technology stop making lists of the best, worst, and most mind-numbingly mediocre applications they find and pause to make lists about tech trends in the upcoming year.

Assessing the past is easy: it has been an interesting year for open source software. Predictions that come to pass, unless suitably vague, just fall into the lucky guess category. The one prediction I am sure of for 2009: Open source software will hold its own when it comes to growth and adoption.

My other predictions? What do you think?

Hello, and welcome to OStatic, where we are ecstatic about open source! I'm Sam Dean, and I'm the editor of the OStatic blog. We are very glad you're here.

OStatic's mission is to be the most comprehensive web destination for information and insight on open source software and services. This blog features a team of writers who have been using and writing about open source tools for years. You'll find them to be especially good at guiding you to the very best applications.