The Internet Is Making You Less Free - There isn't a lot of hope in this article, sort of summarizes the global internet situation from a freedom perspective, I'd say it's just important to keep publishing, weather it's on the internet or on some other media, don't hate the media, be the media
Some more details about the Facebook announcement - it's definitely a pretty radical change of direction for the company, whch means it's interesting, whether it's good or bad for the company and society at large is quite uncertain - I can't help thinking that several billion users, previously sharing lots of interesting things with each other in public, are about to be dragged underground into a privacy dungeon while being told privacy dungeons are the new coolness