Paul Tyma is a frequent (and opinionated) computer industry speaker and writer. Paul has two articles which I think you should read.

The first is called "The Internet is full of Idiots". It's about Amazon.com book reviews. Paul is writing a book and guarantees that the reviews he will get on Amazon will be good ones, at least the first couple. How can he be so sure? Well he's going to write them himself. (Read More)

Paul's next article is titled, "I've invented the greatest compression algorithm ever", and as Paul explains - he's keeping it a secret.