It has been a long time since I had a minute to come up for air. With the holidays coming up and with the recent Sputnik release, I've finally got a chance to briefly point to some things that I think are important:

Dave Winer writes on protecting the net
Chris Lydon interviews Joe Trippi
Joi Ito gets cranky
Ross Dawson's blog on Living Networks
Steven Johnson explains all about Technorati Breaking News