My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 8th

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for June 8th:

• Why does everything suck?: TechDirt’s Mike Masnick: A Researcher With No Research - This is always a problem when you have 2 sides of a highly contentious debate topic hammering at it.
• The VC Puff Piece Template | Venture Chronicles - The mythical god-like personification of venture capitalists is tired << you have been warned
• Social Media Early Adopters: Pioneers, Settlers, and Colonists - The key to adopting the right social media tools is to first figure out which persona you are. Next, you need to identify which persona your friends are, lastly understand how you can best observe, and learn from others. - reasonable advice
• SAP Business ByDesign Report - Brian's pre-report take
• More reasons for agreed standards and lower carbon footprints at Greenmonk: the blog - And who is going to audit these 'standards?'
• Go Big Always - I am so going to enjoy these sessions
• RSSMeme is the Authority on Google Reader Sharing Notes - Well is it and how best might this sort of information be consumed? Adding notes is fine provided you can spread the thinking that goes behind them. If RSS Meme catches on then maybe, just maybe…
• Microsoft’s Aborted Baby: the First Web-Office (Almost)| Zoli’s Blog - As some people might say - fascinating
• Nightmare on Microsoft Street | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD - It might happen but Google's track record is hardly that great
• Tax Research UK / Voters reject tax cuts for big companies - voters reject business lobbying for lower taxes - 57 per cent disagree with the proposition “the Government is right to reduce tax on the profits of large companies”, with only 18 per cent agreeing.