IT Conversations hit a couple of home runs in the past week:

• Adam Bosworth: Database Requirements in the Age of Scalable Services
• Jamais Cascio: Participatory Panopticon

These both seriously kick butt. And I get the double bonus…Adam Bosworth I was already a fan of, but Jamais Cascio is a new read. I love finding new cool people.

More good stuff…Phillip Torrone at Make has posted multiple
podcasts that he captured at Defcon. It’s been a good week for
podcasts! FYI…there’s a zip file of
audio-only MP3s available corresponding to the M4B files that
Phillip has put up at Make. Thanks for hooking us up with that so
quickly, Phillip! Not all of us have iPods yet…*grin*