B. Mann Consulting

If I get to vote, I pick pingback. Here's the Hixie whitepaper that says why. Time to work on the pingback module for Drupal.

Marc Canter's long piece on openness -- open APIs, standards, open source and other components that are tying together to build loosely coupled applications and data flows. Very long, but a good starting point for lots of the different things that are happening right now.