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Cory Doctorow suggests that Murdoch's trying to reshape the web rather than just being insane when it comes to copyright. A persuasive opinion.

This is pretty stunning. Having got used to Google Maps, it would have been nice to be able to travel wherever you like, but I get why that's a way off yet.

Great post by Malcolm Coles. I doubt the Mail particularly cares, since a pretty hefty chunk of its readers are racist, but the point still stands.

Ah, the joys of the Collings and Herrin podcast.

Eminently sensible post from Ed West about freedom of speech.

Great post on the Enemies of Reason about the tabloid hipocrisy over Nick Griffin and the BBC.

I'm not Guido's biggest fan, but when he says "Get a grip. There is no right to not be offended.", he's entirely right.

The TimesOnline Eureka Zone sets about seeing how true Nick Griffin's throwaway line 'scientists would happily confirm this' is. They wouldn't.

"There’s a difference, I think, between social media users who employ every rhetorical weapon at their disposal to hit back at Moir, and those who want to stop views like hers being expressed in future." Indeed.

Makes for depressing, but enlightening reading of what's actually going on.

Jack of Kent explains the legal distinction that many content providers haven't quite understood.

Really excellent post on Information Is Beautiful showing the risk of the HPV vaccine compared to the risk of the cancer it protects against.

So, the professor of economics at Dartmouth College thinks that Cameron's plans are dangerously flawed. Less than comforting.

Interesting document from Qube Media. Essentially, banner ads pull in the hits, but the level of interaction from social media is much, much higher.

Fantastic post from Steve Lawson. It reads like the modern, positive answer to Steve Albini's 'The Problem With Music'.

Frankly, if Martin Narey of Barnardos thinks it's a good idea, I'm inclined to believe him.

Mary Riddell appears to have written the least Telegraph-sounding comment article I've read in the Telegraph. A very well-balanced article.

It's intriguing that you can now follow Nolan Myer's career from where this article leaves off using his public LinkedIn profile. Seems he's done well for himself.

Various geeky people share their iPhone homescreens. And then I look at them and judge them for not using the iPod app enough, or keeping too many emails in their inbox.

This review turns in the last couple of paragraphs and ends up being pretty positive. Other than that, I think it's pretty much on the money. Especially about that godawful wedding.

"There should be recognition of the breathtaking success of the most aggressively Keynesian economic stance taken since the war and how the state has been forced to come to the aid of a feckless private sector in order to relieve the prospect of mass unemployment and business collapse."

David Mitchell here makes the clear, but unpopular, point that the MPs expenses scandal suggests they should be paid more not less.