Best of the blogs: GripeLine ace Ed Foster is taking a poll to determine the single lamest vendor of last year. “Just to make sure your voice gets heard, I’m going to let you vote more than once. Not only that, you can easily persuade me to give your vote more weight than that of other readers.” Find out how and vote here. SOA: Since neither WSDL nor UDDI provides the meta information that could be useful when leveraging private and public services, we need a standard, asserts Dave Linthicum in Common service descriptions could be a key to governance. “I suspect it will still be the Wild West out there for awhile as SOAs moves out of the playground and into business critical production systems, which seems to be occurring now.” Podcasts: While the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark has been around for 5 years now, the performance management spec is starting to appeal to a wider audience. The biggest obstacle, perhaps, is vendor bickering. Tune into Storage Sprawl. The news beat: OpenOffice.org publishes a patch for the ‘highly-critical’ flaw found in the OpenOffice suite — a vulnerability that could be exploited via malicious WMF or EMF formats. Google says by month’s end it will add results clustering and source biasing to its Enterprise Search Appliance. And Cisco buys IronPort, provider of e-mail, Web and security management appliances. Technology Industry