Links for 04-27-2012

• John Grisham Explains Baseball
• Who Made That Pie Chart? - NYTimes.com
• Is GPL licensing in decline? | Open Source Software - InfoWorld
• Midsize Insider: IT Trends: A Vast, Moving Cloud? - "Are Big Data, mobility, and the cloud converging to reshape the IT environment at a fundamental level? Red Hat's "cloud evangelist" says that they are. True, his job is to say things like that. But in fact, these IT trends are hard to miss: They dominate the tech press week after week. They form the backdrop for all the buzz about individual tech firms."
• Daily Research News Online no. 15349 - Gartner Offers $AUD 20m for IDEAS - Missed this news. Gartner acquiring IDEAS (which had acquired DH Brown long time ago)
• State of the Computer Book Market, part 4: The Languages - O'Reilly Radar - "Java continues to be the number one language from book units sold and dollars. There is some shuffling going on with the languages tough. JavaScript is very hot now, as is R. Likely a result of Android and big data driving folks to these languages. "
• Five not-so-obvious reasons why Apple won't be Sony redux | ZDNet - RT @sjvn: RT @dbfarber: Five not-so-obvious reasons why Apple won't be Sony redux @ldignan << Makes sense.
• The Google attack: How I attacked myself using Google Spreadsheets and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill | A Computer Scientist in a Business School - RT @samj: The Google attack: How I attacked myself using Google Spreadsheets and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill ...
• Talent Shortage Looms Over Big Data - WSJ.com
• Open Cloud Conf - RT @pmikeyp: The Open Cloud Conference at the Silicon Valley Cloud Center is next week - << I'll be on panel Tues AM
• The Library of Utopia - Technology Review - "Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed?"
• High-stakes one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma on a British game show with an astounding strategy - Boing Boing
• High stakes for open source in the commercial cloud | Open Source Software - InfoWorld