Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:00 PM PST

Wonderful: Vintage ski photos from the Times archive of a snowy bygone era: http://t.co/MrAL7a1x #
Felix Zulauf on 2012: Sovereign defaults ahead http://t.co/62DqvOA4 #
During high UK winds this week, a runaway trampoline. ("Omigod, trampoline! Trampoline!" shd be a ringtone.) http://t.co/aHjSRe86 #
Sex, Insider Trading and the First U.S. Financial Panic – http://t.co/eAQe0OSv #
Video: Comparison of recent and historical US earthquakes by energy release – http://t.co/Ty7TGxhD #
Incredible avalanche debris slide footage from Colombia – http://t.co/WbdPHpf3 #
Partly for the Pythonesque headline, but still … Shrubbery on the march in Quebec http://t.co/wXKAgZIq #
Just filled out my TED 2012 profile card: two words — crosscountry snowboarding. #
The extreme future of megacities – http://t.co/Hk4lr4mP /cc @richard_florida #
#NowPlaying Andrew Whiteford / Earlyups on @Spotify
http://t.co/SkwcM05h #
NME's 50 Best Albums Of 2011 – http://t.co/evtP5gJM #
NYT: Awakening in the Glow of a Bloomberg Terminal http://t.co/BEg8VwvI #

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Cloud Services Spending Ahead

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST

From UBS, big numbers in cloud services spending growth ahead:

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The IT Spending Issue

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST

I’ve been arguing that are strong similarities on at least one level between the U.S. debt ceiling meltdown this summer and the current Eurozone mess. The level that I’m interested is how it affects the way people think about the future and the economy. The debt ceiling debate caused delayed spending and a loss of confidence, which played out in the public markets as well. We will are in the midst of seeing a comparable effect from Europe, with the extra “benefit” of austerity kicking in and causing apparent weakness to become real, thus producing an extra kick to the economic shins.

This chart from UBS helpfully summarizes the effect in the the IT sector:

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