Main Dish

wasn't going to post anything today, but I found a couple of tasty bits that I have to share.

- USC Annenberg has a great article on how bloggers are forcing change on mainstream media. My friend Matt Marshall and I have this debate whenever we meet for cocktails/dinner, he shrugs me off with "blogs, yeah that's what Gillmor does."
http://ojr.org/ojr/ethics/1085527295.php

- The tiny island nation of Malta (I mean TINY, it's only 11 miles long) is getting a second submarine cable linking them to Sicily. The 2.5 gig cable, upgradable to 1 terabyte, will be essential to bolstering the data infrastructure for Malta burgeoning IT industry... in other words, online gambling. Combine online casinos with liberal banking laws and EUREKA!
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/11162.shtml

- hehe via Doc
http://moxie.nu/blog.php

- Rethinking online marketing. A report on how phishing and spam are permanently altering how marketers deal with online audiences. This is a really clear and detailed report. Via Loftesness
http://www.glenbrook.com/opinions/rethinking-online-marketing-1.html

- excerpt from Carr's book "Does IT Matter". I really wish people would read his stuff and just think about it for a while, instead of knee-jerk reacting to the headline. The guy is NOT saying that IT is useless, get it?
http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4137&t=technology

- using dashboards in your SOA applications so that apps on cruise control don't drive off the cliff and not leave any skid marks.
http://www.looselycoupled.com/stories/2004/policy-infr0526.html

- this is some pretty clever marketing. Thanks Pravin.
http://www.sorrybill.com/