Best of the blogs: What with all the talk these days of a recession or, at the very least, reduced IT budgets, the time is right to plot a strategy for keeping SOA high on the list of corporate priorities. “SOA is going to need some defending,” David Linthicum espouses in this Real World SOA post. Linthicum joins the chorus of SOA champions, one of whom offers up 3 key tactics. Linthicum sums its up by stating, “in essence, prove that the investment in SOA should increase during a downturn, considering that the ROI is very high.”InfoWorld News Quiz: You don’t know tech. Nope, you don’t. You might have a good idea what happened at Macworld, I’ll give you that. But what of all the other news this week? What, for instance, has Amazon done to offend the French this time? And, which former boy-band singer did Amazon join up with? Think you know, then prove me wrong and take the test. Notes from the field: He won’t typically help you much with that quiz, but Robert X. Cringely once again delivers Geek week in review, in which he waxes prophetic on Big Brother can you spare a dime? All my excess live in Texas, and Cruise Control. Yes, that’s as in Tom Cruise, the de facto spokesperson for the Church of Scientology. “Apparently, even the great L. Ron in the sky can’t stop it,” Cringe opines. “Couldn’t he just have a sex tape like everyone else in Hollywood?” Ugh, I feel sick, too. Save Windows XP: Thus far some 30,000 people, and counting, have signed the Save XP petition, thereby asking Microsoft not to discontinue Windows XP come June 30 as planned but, instead, to keep it available indefinitely. Technology Industry