Weekly Links - 03/15/2008

I’ve been sick and having wireless problems this week. Both of which have sapped my resolve to stay on top of the blog. I think the wireless card is crapping out in my desktop since I placed the AP in the same room as the computer and still got a 0% signal. Who knows…

Here are the links:

The One Day Sabbatical - David at LifeClever has a great idea on taking a one day sabbatical. Just taking a day to get out of your routine and spend some time looking over the big picture. Step back from the projects and normal daily grind of your life. It seems like an interesting idea and I am going to to give it a try here in the next couple of weeks.

17 Tips for Getting Bloggers to Write About You - Cory (who runs BoingBoing.net) at Information Week has a good column about common sense steps to make your blog as link friendly as possible. Most of these things are common sense, but I have seen then too many times to count.

How an Information System Helped Nail Eliot Spitzer and a Prostitution Ring - Larry at ZDNet has a great aricle that uses the Spitzer case to show how banks and the government work to find illegal transactions and money laundering. This is a really clear description of some very complicated stuff. An interesting read.

NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows as Agency Sweeps Up Data - Siobhan Gorman at the Wall Street Journal has an article on the rebirth of Total Information Awareness, a NSA spying program that was scrapped several years ago do to privacy concerns and general outrage. It appears that it is attempting to be resurrecting int the new government surveillance bill.