A few interesting posts caught my attention at InfoQ today:

• .NETZ – Compression and Packing for .NET Libraries
  "From the beginning, the .NET runtime had a decent packaging system based on a collection of assemblies. While far better than loose script files or collections of class files, it is not as convenient as statically linked executables or executable JARs. Vasian Cepa's .NETZ gives developers the ability to compress .NET assemblies and pack them into a single executable file…"
  
• Enterprise 2.0, a New Buzzword
  "A new post by Andrew McAfee tries to explain Enterprise 2.0 describing several business problems and how Enterprise 2.0 based approaches help solving them…"
  
• Stanford Study Shows: Maxi-Multitaskers' Performance Impaired
  "A Stanford University study published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Cognitive control in media multitaskers", confirms what seems obvious to many: multitasking, often undertaken for efficiency's sake, is definitely counterproductive. This study looked at a well known, but often disregarded, phenomenon in IT: constant, ongoing multitasking. Agile implementors take note: there's good reason to urge each team to work on one product, with one product owner - splitting attention across many different tasks is a less effective way to work…"
  
• Web-Oriented Architecture (Video)
  "Dion Hinchcliffe presents the technologies making WOA possible: RESTful services, linked data ecosystems, mashups, cloud computing, open APIs, and productivity-oriented software development models…"

Interesting stuff!