Commercial Alert — Protecting communities from commercialism Commercial Alert’s mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental…

What about austerity? – The Boston Globe The bailout package is essential to keep the credit markets open. But absent sentences that include the word austerity all the bailout will accomplish is a temporary postponement. Bailout and…

NYCDOT – DOT Installs David Byrne-Designed Bike Racks DOT Installs David Byrne-Designed Bike Racks

Thinking that free market capitalism must be hiding in the same place as Iraq’s WMDs.

Sending out first flag football email of the season. Let me know if you want to play but didn’t receive an email.

Edge: GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS A Talk By Clay Shirky … media is actually a triathlon, it ’s three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share.

Lessig on McCain on Tech Lessig (who knows more about this stuff than most people) responds to John McCain’s technology platform, focused upon the decline in US broadband penetration rankings globally.

Required Reading for “User-Generated Content” Sites: Io Group v. Veoh | Electronic Frontier Foundation a federal district court threw out a copyright infringement suit brought by adult video producer Io Group against Veoh, concluding that the video hosting site qualifies for the DMCA safe harbor.

Important work can be done while daydreaming – The Boston Globe “Daydreaming builds on this fundamental capacity people have for being able to project themselves into imaginary situations, like the future,” Malia Mason, a neuroscientist at Columbia, says….

The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong—By Bill McKibben (Harper’s Magazine) Great piece on tax policy that needs revisiting: Jesus did not [say] invest, spend, and let the benefits trickle down; he said sell what you have, give the money to the poor, and follow me.