Nothing and Some More

TheDeal: There's lots of loose talk of democratization buzzing around these days (For those who are not subscribers, as you can see, the real content is first displayed and then a redirection happens... for some reason, wget does not do the redirect... too bad)

The proliferation of opinion, like an unregulated market, produces polarization. Narrowcasting levels down, not up. The result can run counter to the dream: instead of everyone having a voice, all voices are aggregated into an affirmative yelp — or a howl. The power of us is too often the power of no one in particular. Basic black is basic black.

Crazy Mobs: Lynch mobs

Wise Crowds: More del.icio.us collaborative filtering

Crazy Mobs: Korean Netizens Attack Dog-Shit-Girl ( and also Return of the Dog Shit Girl)

Wise Crowds: Fifi throws a fit (via sale bête)

Drawn! is a collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw. (via Jon Udell)

the OpenLab a new facility dedicated to public domain R&D.

Work created within the Open Lab will be widely distributed and freely available under open licenses. All code will be released under GPL, media will be released under Creative Commons, and hardware projects will be released with Do-It-Yourself instruction kits. The fellowship is a unique opportunity to participate in a new kind of research environment and contribute directly to the public domain.

Wise Crowds: Des formats ouverts pour l'e-gouvernement norvégien

On presenting his new plan for information technology in Norway - eNorge 2009 – the digital leap, Norwegian Minister of Modernization Morten Andreas Meyer at a press conference in Oslo declared "Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government."

Crazy Mobs: Insensitive iTunes about the PodCast Specifications being a useless pile of shite... but the Wise Crowd tries to change things Shameless Pandering with a little help from the search engine and Technorati.

Speaking of pile of shite, The Origins and Common Usage of British Swear-words and of course The Seven Words You Can Never Say On Tv

Help From France Key In Covert Operations et la version en vf du Monde La CIA et la DGSE auraient établi une structure secrète antiterroriste

And another great definition of what a blogger is: I'm a blogger. I read links. It's what we do.