Best of the blogs: Placing inexperienced personnel in project management positions is one of the best ways upper management can encourage failure. That’s exactly why Bob Lewis offers up three things project managers must understand to harbor even the slightest hope of succeeding. Dave Linthicum, meanwhile, collects some vindication for earlier XML writings with the arrival of the Efficient XML Interchange, a.k.a. EXI, into the W3C. The news beat: Hewlett-Packard says it will acquire identity management vendor Trustgenix for an undisclosed sum. Security firm Dyad raises concerns over a flaw in the scripting language Perl that could enable hackers to launch DoS attacks, while other experts call the vulnerability “unlikely.” More and more enterprises are experimenting with or already using blogs and, despite most users understanding the collaboration benefits, fears remain about controlling sensitive data. Storage: Regis University Online is proclaiming that the Virtual Computing Laboratory Grant it was just awarded is going to change the technology industry in Colorado. As Mario Apicella aptly points out, the effects are also likely to ripple through IBM and EMC as well, if those companies are not careful. Quoteworthy: In the Web 2.0 era, we’re learning how to build and use software that enables us to collectively manage information resources. Those skills will serve us well in Web 3.0, when we expose other kinds of resources — power, transportation — to the same network effects. — Jon Udell, in Web 3.0: Peer-to-peer air travel and electric power. Technology Industry