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Latest overused buzzword: silos. Things, or people, are in silos or feel as though they were. (see: compartmentalize, vertical market, isolation, etc.)

Example discussion.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3700/is_199803/ai_n8807269
Notice all the other lovely MBA-speak in the piece as well.

Little Brother

I've been reading a lot of brain candy books lately, most especially the Aunt Dimity mysteries. On the plane to Seattle, I read something serious. And terrific in both senses of that word.

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Go read it. It has gotten a lot of buzz in various blogs (Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, dsrtao, others). They're right.

If you don't want to buy it, you can download it from the author.