From Eric Peterson at JupiterResearch:

WebTrends announced this morning that their customers are starting to see some of the benfits from the move to first-party cookies and updated some of their previous research on the subject. Their announcement allows me to update my chart of "risks to cookies" for the second time in the last week.

From Pete Lerma at ClickZ:

Has your online planning gotten a little stale? Have you gotten comfortable doing the same things that have always worked, over and over? Are you satisfied with where things are, or are you wondering if there are things you could or should be doing to improve campaign performance?