Careers: Telling a prospective employer that you want a higher salary than they offered is never easy. While some folks simply argue that they are worth more, Nick Corcodilos preaches a more businesslike approach. How do I ask for more money? “Prepare three bullet points that define the added value you would bring to the job. You need the kinds of bullets that justify your request for more money, even if the company declines to offer it. That is, it’s got to sound good and it must make sense.” Easier advised than put into practice, indeed. “You’ve got to articulate how the work you will do will produce more profit for the employer.” Feature well: The Web is no longer a youngster and, in Dan Tynan’s words, is “old enough to ask for the car keys, but still an awkward teenager growing toward maturity.” Since it’s somewhere between 15 and 17 years old, this story shares the 16 greatest moments in Web history. You know, those defining instances, virtual takes on what Wordsworth called “spots in time.” I’ll kick the countdown off right here with the first three: Scandal in a Blue dress (not to be confused with the similar sounding Blue Screen of Death), Do you Yahoo?, and Blogging Katrina.Podcasts: Yours truly is back with a fresh episode of Storage Sprawl, in which DataCore revs up applications and I/O the old fashioned-way: with memory caching. And not just the kind that costs a fortune, either. Tune in here. Open Source: “Few could argue that we seem to be moving into the OSS vendor consolidation stage of the lifecycle (for most OSS markets),” Savio Rodrigues writes in OSS venture capital and M&A. “I wonder how many OSS vendors will remain ‘OSS vendors’ by October 2009. At the end of the day, the large OSS vendors that can acquire smaller OSS vendors number in the handful. And, Oracle could buy all the large OSS vendors in an afternoon … sigh.” Careers