Clay Shirky on new media and its effect on politics: "easiest away to do that is for a politician to be very clear about what they believe and to say the same thing to everybody…. because that kind of clarity is what is getting magnified in the media environment today."

Faites attention, French Antilles, the visa-free Trinis are coming! And you're next, Schengen! (merci, @nplaughlin)

"The blogosphere is about to explode with buzz about CYXYMU, a Georgian blogger writing predominantly in Russian, who may have been the real target of cyber-attacks that made Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal inaccessible on August 06, 2009…"