This Thursday I'm posting from beautiful sunny Northern California, having somehow dodged an earthquake by coming to the west coast. Luckily all of the infrastructure seems intact, so the east won't miss out on this week's links. Read more »

There are never enough hours in the day to cover everything worth sharing, so here are some stories we didn't have time to explore:


The Seattle Times reports on colleges successfully using car-sharing to cut down on camp. Read more »

Many of us would love to be rid of our RSS readers, to replace them with the socially-curated news feeds we get from Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr. Even when using the dominant client, Google Reader, browsing RSS feeds is problematic and frustrating. Read more »

Upon the release of his divisive 2008 book Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky was besieged by media professionals: "what will happen to our careers in the brave new world of amateur media?" they asked. Read more »