I hope China doesn't try to ban cell phones with recording devices after this. It's a fuzzy boundary between the economic opportunism that China champions, and the freedom of speech that it's trying to subdue. This is really one of the most powerful forms of revolt that these people have right now.

Quoted: Cell-phone photographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and amateur, are circulating on the Internet. Some show clouds of tear gas; others burning buildings and shops; still others purple-robed monks, riot police, and confusion.

Very interesting piece about what's happening with the $100 laptop initiative now that for-profit competitors are snagging the idea from the non-profit sector...

Quoted: The dream of cheap computers in the hands of millions of poor children is becoming a reality, though not exactly as its proponents imagined. For-profit competitors snatched the idea and have run with it.

Ha, this is awesome! Apparently the virtual embassy doesn't offer any consular services, though - it was just created to promote Sweden's image and culture.

Quoted: Sweden became the first country on Wednesday to open an embassy in the virtual world Second Life.