links for 2008-02-07

The break in cables has caused disruption to net services in the Middle East and India. The cause is still not known.

“courtesy of December’s McKinsey Quarterly. James Manyika, Roger Roberts and Kara Sprague have identified the eight business technology trends to watch over the next decade”

A very common problem is [mainstream media] blogs that don’t link out enough to other sites, especially to other blogs. Building links across the Internet is, I believe, the core function of blogs. Without links, you have an online journal — not a blog.

“It’s a blog that breaks news, it engages citizens and the movers and shakers in dialogue. In some ways it has become its own 24/7 source of news and information for people in that community.”

“There’s something about the Internet that turns people into jerks. Or maybe there’s something about jerks that turns them on to the Internet.”

“One of the most striking developments in online news in the past year or so has been the rapid proliferation of interesting database applications…”