European mobile operators say big sites need to pay for users' data demands (Guardian) -- it's like the postal service demanding that envelope makers pay them because they're not making enough money just selling stamps. What idiocy.
Grace Programming Language -- language designers working on a new teaching language.
Gawker Media's Entire Database Hacked -- 1.5M usernames and passwords, plus content from their databases, in a torrent. What's your plan to minimize the harm of an event like this, and to recover? (via Andy Baio)
Macmillan Do Interesting Stuff (Cameron Neylon) -- have acquired some companies that provide software tools to support scientists, and are starting a new line of business around it. I like it because it's a much closer alignment of scientists' interests with profit motive than, say, journals. Timo Hannay, who heads it, runs Science Foo Camp with Google and O'Reilly.