The American Library Association celebrates Banned Books Week- celebrating the freedom to read. It talks about an annual event that focuses on the importance of free and open access to information.
This is proof that high quality prose and poetry can pop up in the most unlikely places. Thousands of people have used Amazon's page selling a peculiar product to demonstrate their writing skills. The web allows for interesting forms of Internet graffiti.
From the MacArthur Foundation site announcement (12.3.09): "The report, "Meeting of the Minds," (PDF) is the result of a series of cross-generational online dialogues about digital ethics involving more than 250 adults and teens around the world. Participants discussed how to behave in a digital world, from illegal downloading and the creativity associated with remixing,to the factors that go into deciding whether to meet an online connection face-to-face".