Best of the blogs: Matt Asay has been collaborating with Tim O’Reilly on the upcoming Open Source Executive Briefing that is part of O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention. “Working with [Tim] has helped me see a bit farther out into the darkness to see where open source is going … The picture is very, very bright,” Asay writes. ITxtreme: Since in this obfuscated, overheated, hype-laden mushuggeneh Internet bubble 2.0, a ‘product manager’ can refer to an engineering manager, a brand manager, a design visionary or, umm, a product manager, Paul Ryan asks Where have all the good product managers gone? Yes, he’s beating to the tune of Van Halen’s song with the only slightly different name. Lyrics included. Security: Roger Grimes, in Security Adviser, links to “an excellent introduction on honeyclients” that Robert Danford presented to SANS. Notes from the field: Always antagonistic, Robert X. Cringely this week picks on the FBI. Not to worry, though, that doesn’t mean he’s left behind the likes of Microsoft and its lingering malware problems, or refrained from suggesting how The Redmond Giant can overcome the E.U. once and for all. And he laments the departure of Amanda Congdon from Rocketboom. FBI gets hacked, video blogger sacked. Technology Industry