Looking East while the West restructures itself
1. Everything China
This month, I have noticed that most of my magazines and journals from cooking to tech writing to science all focus on doing business in China. If you don't subscribe to IEEE, ACM or STC, or even Wired, you can borrow some of these issues to read up on the trend if you have interests in the far east.
2. Shifting funding needs: the gravy train ride is over on agencies that previously funded lots of innovation in the field. An overview of the current state of affairs (DoD, NSF, DARPA, NSA, NIH and others) is reviewed in several articles falling in my lap this month, including the NY Times discussing the Pentagon's shifting gears.