My buddy Geoff Dougherty got Knight Foundation money for ChiTownDailyNews!

This is fantastic, he’ll do great things with that!

Adrian Holovaty got a Knight News Challenge grant, leaves Washington Post

Everyblock will focus on hyperlocal, it sounds like

Nerve.com has a wiki for pickup lines

“If I were an enzyme i would be DNA helicase so i could unzip your genes”

A rebuttal to Mark Helprin’s inane “copyright should live forever” op-ed

Lessig, when asked to rebut, suggested instead that supporters of sensible copyright should do the job better.

The Oprah definition of RSS - Ready for Some Stories

Pretty in punk, 25 punk, rock, and goth knitting projects

Dawdler - a longnow version of Twitter, with postcards

“A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?”

I suppose it was only a matter of time before lolpresident

The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights

Slate takes a damning look at the problem that voter fraud isn’t. Interesting how Republicans do better when fewer people vote…

Jezebel is the latest Gawker blog

For women too smart to put up with women’s magazines