Links for 12-16-2010

• Why TV Lost - "About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they'd produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers." Mostly true--although this speaks just to the delivery mechanism rather than the content.
• Marten Mickos Talks Red Hat, OpenStack and M&A: Cloud «
• CloudSwitch: Traitor To the [Public Cloud] Cause… | Rational Survivability
• “What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces - Smashing Magazine
• The Value of the Freedom to Leave the Cloud: Salesforce and Heroku – tecosystems
• The PC Industry's Forgotten Market: Grandpa | ZDNet - "The only benefit to him having a Mac is that he could drag the thing into an Apple store and torture some poor bastard in a blue t-shirt at the Genius Bar, and they can charge him some ridiculously expensive surcharge to bring it back from death each time."
• Risk and Reward in the Cloud | Andi Mann – Übergeek - "It is just another risk to evaluate and manage. As I have already published – and it clearly remains exceedingly relevant – downtime is endemic in the public cloud – but it is not unique to public cloud."
• Project Food Blog Entry: Final Reflections - Boston in food.