Some hold WikiLeaks responsible for committing crimes, while the transparency-obsessed Julian Assange says his organization merely commits journalism. But one pioneering online soul thinks that WikiLeaks is producing something else entirely: poetry.

All through last night, the media section of TeaParty.org, an official Tea Party website, was bombarded with new users who filled the photo section with shocking and offensive pictures (Example: a very, very NSFW photoshop of Sarah Palin. I repeat, NSFW). The pictures were so shocking that the site almost began to look like the outlaw imageboard 4chan. Now, I wonder who could have done it. I wonder…

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Carl Malamud, noted independent archivist and champion of making information from government agencies accessible, is sounding a call (wisely using the robust megaphone that is Boing Boing): public video should be public. A veteran of many institutions you’ve heard of (MIT Media Lab, Mozilla Foundation, Center for American Progress) Malamud notes that to view public [...]

Rachel Maddow took time on her MSNBC hour last night to take a closer look at some of Senator John McCain‘s latest legislative activity: his net neutrality bill. Maddow broke it down like so: “The government says the internet should be free — big companies should not be able to rig the Internet for their own purposes. John McCain’s bill says they should.”