A brief look at how text that can circulate through the web creates more value than text locked in boxes- the problem starts when we're limited in what we can circulate, whether by lack of copy and paste or rights restrictions. Starts with commonplaces books as web snippets and rests the argument on that practice. "A single piece of information designed to flow through the entire ecosystem of news will create more value than a piece of information sealed up in a glass box." "When text is free to flow and combine, new forms of value are created, and the overall productivity of the system increases. " The

That we react to them is telling. That we work to articulate a response to them is even more telling. Statement: http://www.brandejs.ca/portfolio/Genpets/What

Based on wefeelfine, calls on twitter.

Annotated list of wiki engines.

a guide to current acceptable practices,

Projects and products that oscillate between digital and atoms, collaboration. digital / material mashups and re-mediations

Destroy web pages, one by one. It's a mashup.

from MIT building a semantic web. A set of Java/rfd tools in development. Includes Timeline and Timeplot apps. Mashups go pro.

A data visualization of The Archers. Ah, the way of the future.

Brian Lamb on mashups - for art and for education - learning objects (RIP), conditions of acceptance, and "Educators and higher education decision-makers have an obligation to carefully and critically assess new technologies before making radical changes.