Perhaps not what you've been waiting for all year -- an extensive resource for researching various qualitative data analysis programs -- but if you're in a research environment, this is actually extremely helpful. This page is from a university in the U.K., and would be useful if you're about to sink a few hundred dollars in some software (which will in turn play an important part in your research, of course.) Research it: CAQDAS (New Media Methods @ Loughborough University)