Loose links

Some links to interesting articles.
* First Monday – The media’s portrayal of hacking, hackers, and hacktivism before and after September 11
* First Monday – New approaches to television archiving
* Newsweek: Not the Queen’s English – Non-native English-speakers now outnumber native ones 3 to 1. And it’s changing the way we communicate.
* Kottke in Newsweek – One of the most popular individual bloggers discusses microcelebrity and his decision to go pro.
* Richard Edelman about the power of “Average Joe” – Co-Creating and the growing power of ‘average person like me’: Nearly 60% of Americans and a comparable percentage of Brazilians, Brits, Canadians, Chinese, French, Germans and Japanese look to their peers for knowledge and advice, up from 20% only two years ago.
* Fast Company: Amazon cry wolf? – The down side of underpromising and overdelivering.