An online discussion forum for members of the Calgary Regional Partenership (CRP) Regional GIS Technical Committee and anyone else interested in regional GIS.
ESRI has updated their system design strategies white paper as of August of 2009. This document addresses many of the technical issues of GIS systems and is a great reference
Some discussion about Google's Place Pages that those of you invloved in web applications would find interesting (courtesy of Jason Birch's Blog, City of Naniamo):