Old Growth Media And The Future Of News: Amazing blog post from Steven Berlin Johnson, that really digs into what our post-newspaper future might be like. Goes great as a companion to the aforelinked article from Clay Shirky. Money quote:\n\n

\" I think in the long run, we’re going to look back at many facets of old media and realize that we were living in a desert disguised as a rain forest. Local news may be the best example of this. When people talk about the civic damage that a community suffers by losing its newspaper, one of the key things that people point to is the loss of local news coverage... Five years from now, if someone gets mugged within a half mile of my house, and I don’t get an email alert about it within three hours, it will be a sign that something is broken.\"

Q&A on California tax increases: While I sure don't like paying extra taxes, California is so far in debt that they probably actually really probably sortof need the money.

CAMBLR - Marketing Genius, Episode II: The Camblr Strikes Back: Fascinating bit of Star Wars trivia, pertaining to how George Lucas constructed this whole other world. It's also worth reading the original post that spawned this discussion.