Links for 06-08-2012

• Chris Mason leaving Oracle [LWN.net] - RT@dberkholz: Great pickup by our client @FusionIO of Btrfs developer Chris Mason! << Interesting news
• The 5 Worst Marketing Ideas Ever Put into Action | Cracked.com - "In a fine example of the revolting type of doublespeak that only PR reps and children born without souls can muster, McDonald's went on record as agreeing that "to a certain extent this was bad timing." The hamburger mocking a lethal famine was "bad timing," but only "to a certain extent.""
• Cloud Computing Bootcamp - Agenda | Cloud Computing Bootcamp - RT @robustcloud: @ghaff from #redhat will present Hybrid #cloud @CloudExpo <- featuring just GAed CloudForm
• How Good Is Your Presentation? | Inc.com - RT @AndiMann: How Good Is Your Presentation? Great checklist to ensure you cover the basics << Good list
• Oracle Thinks Cloud Is Marketing - Seeking Alpha - Hee. Hee. "Oracle Thinks Cloud in Marketing" by Dana Blankenhorn
• Open Source Hybrid Management Platform from Red Hat Debuts -- Virtualization Review - John Waters writes about CloudForms open hybrid cloud mgmt in Virtualization Review
• The Tortured History of Internet Protocol v6
• The 2nd Tenet of Evaluating Cloud Products: You Have to Know What Problem You Want To Solve | tentenet.net - RT @bryanwche: #redhat #cloudforms is released today. How does it compare to other products? #cloud
• Red Hat intros CloudForms hybrid management platform | ZDNet - RT @ZDNet: Red Hat intros CloudForms hybrid management platform
• Twitter / ghaff: Here's the cake from our C - Here's the cake from our CloudForms launch viewing!
• Untitled (http://www.redhat.com/rhecm/rest-rhecm/jcr/repository/collaboration/jcr:system/jcr:versionStorage/198e7c0d0a0526013022e3d733f768f3/5/jcr:frozenNode/rh:pdfFile.pdf) - Red Hat CloudForms: Open Clouds under Your Control. Whitepaper by me.
• Red Hat | Red Hat CloudForms: Build a cloud demo video - CloudForms--Build a cloud with CloudForms demo video via @JaneCircle
• RealClearPolitics - Nudge Government Run Amok - "Noodge government is nudge government run amok. Noodge, from the Yiddish nudyen, to pester, is both noun and verb: Stop noodging me. You are such a noodge."
• Tango E5 Autonomous Mower - Not really there yet for most uses given price but autonomous lawn mowing is getting there
• Flickr: El mural de NASA Venus Transit Observing Challenge - Venus transit pool on flickr. Cool stuff.
• Is there best practice for a server to system administrator ratio? - infrastructure management, servers, virtualisation - Computerworld
• Sessions & Labs: 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBossWorld - I'll be giving at #redhat Summit 6/27 "Busting Cloud Myths" Here's a discount code: 2012RHFRIEND
• Why the Public Cloud is a Big Fat Enterprise #Fail - Perspectives: CA Technologies corporate blog - CA Technologies - "Public cloud technology vendors would do well to reuse that model. Giving consumers what they want, even to the extent of providing tools and support to help users bypass their IT departments, might be an effective way to quickly grow a user base. But it’s a dead end over the long haul."
• Costs and risks to consider when planning a move to the public cloud | TechRepublic
• Apple Television, AirPlay and Why the iPad is the new TV Apps Platform - Jeremy Allaire - Voices - AllThingsD - Agree w this piece. TV should be a place can "throw" content from tablet or phone.
• Technology Review Goes Digital First - Technology Review - RT @jason_pontin: I announce that MIT Technology Review @techreview goes "digital first":