ARTICLE: Leading Men, By Robert Cringely, August 22, 2008

An interesting way to capture connectivity - Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts.

I will say, when I sit in rooms with international businessmen who know stuff like this, they foresee a very different world than that imagined by defense types who measure power in their own way. Of course, each side has opinions about who's being naive.

The data: CCIE water cooler gossip: 9 year worldwide CCIE count by region and country

(Thanks: Christopher Plummer)