Links for 05-13-2010

• Lost and Heroes: In Defense of Arrogance - Tuned In - TIME.com - " "Awesome" and "awful" are actually closer to each other on the continuum of quality than either is to "meh." "
• Why Ma Bell Got the Ill Communication | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD - "Nearly one in four U.S. households has abandoned traditional landline telephones in favor of their wireless brethren. " Knew it was a trend but had no idea it was this high.
• Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life? - ABC News - ""The underlying engineering teams are so good, but the direction they got was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn't succeed," said Ellison. "Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.""
• What Makes a Data Center a Private Cloud? . Datacenter Blog . Blogs . IDC Insights Community - IDC: What makes a private cloud.
• Does Virtualization Security Really Matter? | Andi Mann – Übergeek - Andi makes the case that interest levels in pure-play virtualization security have waned.
• James Hamilton on cloud economies of scale | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News - I'm not at all convinced that anyone yet has a good understanding of how the economics of well-run enterprise-class private clouds stack up against those of a provider like Amazon.
• Marginal Revolution: Are you an asker or a guesser? - Fascinating.
• Hitsville » The case against non-profit news sites - Good read.