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1. Solyndra leaders invoke 5th Amendment at hearing

   Not unexpected, but also not great PR for the renewable energy industry to have two executives invoking constitutional rights against self-incrimination.

   Submitted by Adam Lesser

2. The inevitability of chaos and major losses in strategic high tech

   Historian of technology and culture, Edward Tenner, looks at the Solyndra failure and draws parallels with the non-linear, irrational and uncertain development of the airplane. He notes that failure is a necessary part of the development of any game changing new technology.

   Submitted by Adam Lesser

3. The cloud diagnosed by IT. And it isn’t pretty

   A post on Forbes, from Birst CEO Brad Peters, offers a point by point refutation of the arguments that corporate IT departments make against cloud computing. It's really beginning to feel like, despite some corporate IT managers' misgivings, migration to the cloud is inevitable.

   Submitted by Adam Lesser

4. 4 ways any company can take part in the ‘new sharing economy’

   Ford's Director of Sustainable Business Strategies, John Viera, discusses the four principles he believes enable the share economy. I'd most strongly agree with his third principle, which points to social networks as a lynchpin of collaborative consumption. No share economy company can exist without creating a social network that can be leveraged for the offline world.

   Submitted by Adam Lesser

5. Shopping.com head Andre Haddad as CEO

   RelayRides, a peer to peer car sharing startup, has nabbed Andre Haddad as its new CEO.

   Submitted by Adam Lesser

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