Link Review - January 2009

After failing miserably to keep up with the weekly link sharing posts, I have decided in 2009 to switch to a monthly format. If nothing else, it will make me review the longevity of the content in the link. Here is a sample of links collected during January 2009. As always, the full set can be found at my FriendFeed profile.

Systems

• The Economics of Giving It Away: How do you make a business model out of nothing? - Chris Anderson in the WSJ
  
• Why expecting IT projects to come in on time and budget is unreasonable - Harvard Business Review
  
• Revolution, Facebook-style - NYT
• Sales of Monty Python DVDs rise 23,000% after posted on YouTube
• The MIT Blackjack team perspective on the financial crisis
• Actions to survive a recession - Harvard Business Review
• An economic recovery plan - Philip Greenspun
  
• The trick in a volunteer economy is less to keep a superstar from quitting than to make sure that plenty want to take his/her place - Will work for praise, Business Week
• Secrets of Success from Google co-founder Larry Page
  
• The short squeeze - how Porsche made a killing
  

People

• Who's online and what are they doing? Teens using email has dropped from 89% to 73% in past 5 years - ReadWriteWeb review of the latest Pew Internet survey
• Valley Girls: Esther Dyson - on a life falling into the Net (BBC News)
• Interview with Alan Kay - still waiting for the revolution, from 2003
• Self awareness: the last frontier
  
• Open plan offices make workers sick
• Touch screen gadgets alienate the blind
• McKinsey's most popular interviews of 2008
  

Information

• Data Analysts captivated by R - data mining tool
• The future for media - according to Clay Shirky
• Hyperlinking the real world - the MOBVIS project
  

Technology

• How technology matures - in 100 years, photos go from being magical to being an afterthought
• Comparing Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 business models
• Solutions don't have to be complicated
  
• SOA is dead, long live services - ouch, caused a stir this one did
  
• Microsoft Online Services guide - where they're heading next...
  

...and finally, for a bit of fun. Dilbert's approach to Web 2.0:

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