I've been looking around the Baltimore/Washington area for people who are writing about the tech and innovation scene, or actually representing it by blogging thoughtfully and passionately on tech-related topics they care about.

I've found some and got them listed over in my blogroll on the right. These folks are all well worth a read and an add to your RSS reader. And I'm looking for more.

I also think it's important that we all look beyond our region to see what others are doing, at least on the East Coast.

Beyond this immediate area, I'm really enjoying following the New England scene through some of its tech/innov bloggers. There's a real push up in the Boston area for biotech and biosciences, which, of course, is an area that Maryland wants to be an international player in (and already is, in some regards.)

I'm digging Business Innovation Factory's blog, as well as the blog kept by its founder and chief catalyst, Saul Kaplan (@skap5), who recently called for a "national innovation agenda" in a BusinessWeek column.

Boston Globe columnist Scott Kirsner has an impressive library of print, blog and video coverage that helps get you under the hood of the scene up in Beantown. I learned from his blog yesterday that June is Innovation Month in New England. Check out his video site here. In the video below, Kirsner interviews a startup company head who's showing off a super-computer; unfortunately, the company went out of business.