With perhaps the most insighful and ahead-of-the curve reporting about BYOD, CIO.com's Tom Kanshige raises the issue of two colliding worlds on smart phones - work and personal. His latest story raises an obvious point: what happens when someone saves a work white boards, for instance, to the personal side of their smart phone? Or what happens when they post photos of the kids to their work side of the phone?

JD Irving CIO Martin Davis once said there are no IT projects...just projects with an IT element. Those would seem to support the argument in this ZDNet post that IT's days are numbered...that it will be reduced to overseeing "low value technical plumbing."

That might be an extreme view, but here's the operative paragraph in this provocative post:

Well, I, for one, do not plan on quitting my job. After all, a community manager's job is both interesting and thoroughly relevant in the online world. For the moment, anyway...

Writer James Altucher, a managing partner of a hedge fund and book author, makes some great observations. Here's three: the middle class is dead; money does not buy happiness (and he's in hedge funds!!??); and corporations don't like you. His post is a good read.