Are facts commodites (great post that will have you thinking – read it)? A scenario and thought related:

What if you were a Katrina survivor, radios and cell towers are down, no electricity or WiFi – and all you have is word of mouth – rumor – to guide you? What if you are illiterate? Or disabled? I’d argue the pillars of Infrastructure and Protocol permit facts to be commodities. When either denies facts to spread – they get locked down in hidden cells that only those already in the know can unlock or they get warped and misrepresented as they fight to be free.

I know I’m blessed to work in an industry that deals with this. We’re nowhere close to being where we can be – or where we need to be – there is a lot to do yet.

Three conferences I wish I could have gone to: We Media, web 2.0, and ConvergeSouth.

post-gazette: State College-based blogger Aaron Wall was sued in August for defamation and revealing the trade secrets of Traffic-Power.com

Sun welcomes you to 1999 with it’s non-announcement. Did any of you waste your time with the Google-Sun webcast? It was an infuriating circle-jerk with no substance. Was the entire idea to poke at Microsoft? I mean.. really… that is so 1999.

I like the ideas behind Ning, primarily becasue they seem to have empowerment at their root. But I can’t say much about it since I don’t have a developer account yet.

A huge congrats to Brent Simmons and Ranchero on being aquired by NewsGator.

Another huge congrats to Waxy and Upcoming.org on being aquired by Yahoo!.