A breakdown of the actions and gestures surrounding news.

"So it would be easy to think that the Whole Earthers are winning and the Epiphinators are losing. But this isn't a war as much as a trade dispute. Most people never chose a side; they just chose to participate. No one joined Facebook in the hope of destroying the publishing industry."

Tom Anderson of Myspace fame writes about different approaches to writing on the web.

Brilliant essay from Paul Ford.

"Politicians and media companies are coming at these questions at the wrong starting line: as if we go to the internet to take a piece of private information and squirrel it away there. That’s not what we’re doing. We’re sharing."

Marco's take on Google's latest foray into social.

"But in a perfect world you don't want to be dependent on any single one of them. The more social platforms of scale there are, and we have a bunch now, including Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare, the better world it will be for developers."

"It’s an age-old problem, exacerbated by technology. To be always filled with craving and desire (also called defilement, affliction) is one of the Three Poisons of Buddhism, called kilesa, and it makes you a slave."

The nerd community needs to be more open and understanding. Great call to action.

"Color’s impressive technology for automatically grouping photos based on proximity may gain its founders and developers points at Silicon Valley cocktail mixers, but it won’t gain any engaged users."

Fred Wilson writes about why Color represents an important step for the future of social graphs.

David Cohn is back with his carnival of journalistic fun.

Dave Winer's thoughts on how to boot a social network now.

An effort to create a post-once-share-everywhere social network/service.

Interesting new protocol being released for an open and distributed link-sharing system. Already has the likes of Google, Instapaper, and Digg on board.