I'm in Woodbridge, Va., this morning about to head out to the Long Tail Alliance Fly-In, a gathering of small web publishers organized by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Google. As a publisher who uses context-based advertising on the Drudge Retort and other sites, I was invited to come to DC and meet with members of Congress to talk about why this form of advertising is important to online media.

In 1970s, the federal government instituted automobile regulations to increase vehicle fuel efficiency — in part by decreasing vehicle weight. The initiative, called "CAFE" or "Corporate Average Fuel Economy," has been renewed and enhanced as recently as 2007. Heavier vehicles tend to be safer vehicles, but Congress and the President have judged that the gain in efficiency at the cost of safety is worthwhile and justified.

With the recent shenanigans of Adam Wheeler and the discovery of his false application to Harvard and other prestigious schools, many people are left wondering how it was so easy for him to gain admission. Many people are beginning to say that acceptance to Harvard must be simple and easy to manipulate, but the fact of the matter is that that statement is far from the truth.

"I was never very good at literary analysis," John Locke declares in an episode from Season 2 of Lost. The writers for the series, on the other hand, seem determined to load the series with literary references. Sawyer, the hardbitten conman, turns out to be a voracious reader, devouring everything from Watership Down to A Wrinkle in Time. The series builds on one of the most celebrated literary tropes: survivors on a deserted island.

As blogged on my Asian Correspondent page over the weekend, research from social media measurement agency Sysomos has indicated the Japanese are Asia's most active bloggers. Having researched and analysed the global blogsphere, Sysomos ranks Japan third globally with a 4.88% share of voice.

Greenpeace dubbed its campaign against Nestlé a success earlier this week when the food giant announced that it will no longer use products that drive tropical rainforest destruction, specifically palm oil that comes from companies like Indonesia's Sinar Mas Group.

Over the last couple of years (let's pick a random title and call it "The Obama Era") we've seen a movement develop, spearheaded by groups like the Sunlight Foundation and enabled by some innovative thinkers in the White House, around open government data and transparency. The movement has been wildly successful in publishing reams and reams of local, state and federal government data (in the US and abroad) in machine-readable formats online.

The explosion of public opinion and negative press about Facebook lately has been absolutely fascinating to watch for several reasons. First, it delineates the clear existence of two different models of innovation and company operation -- for instance, the Ubuntu development model versus the Apple product development model -- and exemplifies all too clearly the consideration and input (or lack thereof) that users and user interests have in the evolution of a product.

The state of Caliornia is now at the centre of debate for legalized online casino gambling. Precisely, they are discussing the possibility of passing an intrastate internet poker gambling industry, its benefits, while also allowing the state government to collect taxes and create more jobs.

Sixty Catholic Workers and friends from the Midwest held a demonstration to contrast the Works of Mercy and the Works of War outside the Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois on April 26, 2010. The nonviolent protest was the culmination of a weekend gathering known as the Midwest Catholic Worker Resistance Retreat that happens every spring and ends in nonviolent direct action. This year's retreat, "The Cost of War: At Home and Abroad" had over 200 people in attendance from all over the country.

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