Marshall Kirkpatrick gives a bit of insight into how he's tracking the future of the music industry via Twitter. This type of journalism-hacking is brilliant. The information is out there if you can put the effort into collecting and sorting it.

A beautiful post from Marshall Kirkpatrick about Twitter, Evan Williams, and the joys of distributed, open, and public publishing.

Marshall Kirkpatick writes a great piece about what it means for the web that Tumblr went down for almost 24 hours.

Marshall Kirkpatrick recaps the first 11 days of Wikileaks and "Cablegate."

"Social networking is a huge part of the world we live in today. It's far too important to leave in the hands of a near-monopoly, even if that monopoly seems relatively benign today."