In keeping with my pattern of alternating between fiction and non-fiction, my next reading project is the non-fiction work Security Data Visualization: Graphical Techniques for Network Analysis. Thus far it's fairly interesting and, despite how heavy it is, seems to be a rather short, brief read.
In addition to traditional books, I also follow a number of blogs. I share a number of items that I find most interesting, a feed to which you can subscribe here. Here's a sample of some entries I've read in the last few days:
IT Security Compliance: What are the Critical Success Factors?
from Security Response Weblog
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2008/01/it_security_compliance_what_ar.html
Demos Report on National Security
from Schneier on Security by schneier
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/demos_report_on.html
From Monitoring To Prevention: Switching To Debix
from securosis.com by rmogull
http://securosis.com/2008/01/03/from-monitoring-to-prevention-switching-to-debix/
Europe Wants To Force DRM Interoperability
from TechCrunch by Duncan Riley
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/04/europe-wants-to-force-drm-interoperability/
U.S. Now Among World's Worst Surveillance Societies
from ACLU Blog by blog@aclu.org (Suzanne Ito, ACLU)
http://blog.aclu.org/index.php?/archives/382-U.S.-Now-Among-Worlds-Worst-Surveillance-Societies.html
Best and Worst Communicators of 2007
from How to Change the World by GuyKawasaki
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/01/best-and-worst.html
Justin Wolfers and Bob Erikson on election prediction markets: the greatest thing since sliced bread, or nothing but warmed-over polls?
from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2008/01/justin_wolfers.html
The first Long tail Olympics
from The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/01/the-first-long.html
Prediction markets at Google
from Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/01/betting-markets.html