A book I ran across about information overload and how we can take control of the media that is overloading us and use it to our benefit (the Foreword is written by Clay Shirky).

Larry Lessig's talk at CERN on the way that copyright interacts with science publishing is a stirring call-to-arms to free up scientific discovery and inquiry.

This is a post on the popular blog Boing Boing showing a sign in a public library giving reasons for why the Internet can't replace libraries.

College English teacher Andy Selsberg describes how he has been working vernacular, Internet-era composition assignments into his syllabus, assigning good tweets and YouTube comments alongside the traditional five-paragraph essay.

Listen to what Stephen Fry has to say about the "grammar police" and what direction language seems to be headed today. Really interesting!

Tom Scott explains (in under five minutes) what happens when a flash mob goes wrong. Really interesting video!

In Britain, a new austerity budget has threatened massive library closures across the country, with some communities in danger of ending up with no public library at all. Philip Pullman's local chief counsellor accused authors of defending libraries because they like the royalties they earn from the books libraries buy. In response, Pullman has given this stirring speech about the value of libraries to their communities and to civilization

The Pope talks about how Christianity and new ways of communicating come together in the "Digital Age" we now live in.