Shareable

Here's the Shareable weekly links post for this week, and I have finally run out of other ways to introduce it. Enjoy!

• The votes are in and we have a winner in the Open Source Hardware logo contest. And it's pretty.
   
• From The Knight Foundation: the perils and potential of connected citizens.
   
• Sharing as a readership metric: The Daily is rapidly losing readers based on Twitter-based sharing.
   
• Can you patent a shape? The coming IP battles over 3D printing.
   
• For our readers in the DC metro area, this weekend is the Theorizing The Web conference at my alma mater, The University of Maryland.
   
• Mapping the "Dark Web".
   
• The research: better grammar in reviews improves sales numbers. The answer: crowd-sourced review editing.
   
• Forced urban minimalism: how to live in 90 square feet.
   
• Reportback notes from Resilience 2011.
   
• And from The Times, the fascinating story of New York City's black-market cigarette dealers.