Suw: The Digital Economy Bill – set to ruin the very thing it purports to support

Suw: Look at the pretty drawings! Nice round up of visualisation techniques.

Suw: WiredUK takes a look at the paywall rhetoric and finds it lacking.

Suw: Answer – No, not really. This blog post simplifies things to the point of inapplicability.

Suw: Kevin Marks' list of words everyone needs to know to understand what's going on in the real-time web.

Suw: Bill Gurley with a fascinating analysis of Google's map strategy and the ramifications not just for Tele Atlas and NavTeq, but GPS device mfrs like Garmin and TomTom, and GPS-enabled mobile phone mfrs.

Kevin: This is very, very interesting. Ushahidi is a crowd-sourced reporting app that grew out of the election unrest in Kenya in early 2008. The project has brought on board Jon Gosier. He is the "founder of Appfrica Labs in Uganda, a Senior TED Fellow and a name well-known amongst the African technology and blogging crowd". He will be working on the Swift River project, which looks to use algorithmic and crowdsourcing methods to help verify crisis information.