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A funny and very telling pushback to Lily Allen and the corporate interests she appears to support in trying to strangle filesharing.
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Lovely bit of journalism, following up on the life stories of the five boys in the classic photograph of the class system in Britain. via David Smith (https://delicious.com/Preoccupations)
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Snowden really gets the benefits of sticking a keynote on the web, here's a podcast and the slides. He jokes at the start it allows him to talk as fast as he likes as people can run the podcast at their own speed. Some good insights on the world of KM and the limits of explicit knowledge
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Good Wired article looking at the Conservative's evolving engagement with the Web. My impression: some parts switched-on, really improving engagement; other parts grandiose and a bit deluded (eg supposedly accurate targeting by using tired old market research clusters)

Grit before pearls
Ben Schott has a go at the paradoxical blandness of supposedly disruptive startups: Welcome to your bland new world. It’s easy to get stuck in