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John Anderson sent me a link to a fantastic collection of political mashups. The current President is a popular target, but the Nixon stuff is really great as well.

Check out the very cool finalists for the 2006 Wikimania awards.

Denise Howell has a great post about the Washington Post’s plan to run a mash-up. According to the terms and conditions, as a condition of participating, the artists must agree to “grant and assign all right, title and interest in the Recording to” the Washington Post.

Good for the Washington Post — mash-ups are an important and valuable form of creativity encouraged (and democratized) by digital technology. But I believe that the artists who create them deserve to own and hold the copyright to their new creative work. And in my view, any self-respecting artist should refuse to participate in any sharecropping mash-up. You did the work. You should own the rights to the work you did.

The BBC's memory season remembers all the wrong things

Tony finds his real roots, Cherie finds his passport, while the perfect couple give Arnie the present he has always sought. By Red Box

The use of Prestwick to send bombs to Israel became a health and safety issue

Marek Kohn on why it could make sense that males think differently from females

As our politicians shed responsibility for managing the economy they have to prove their importance elsewhere. That place is the crime agenda