Guardian.co.uk has set up the citizenry to investigate MPs expenses, looking for questionable home repairs and the like. (Thanks Shaun Dakin) It seems, at first look, like a pretty spectacular system and well worth digging into a bit.
YouTube is taking a curious approach to addressing videos that make use of copyrighted music that hasn't been "authorized" -- hitting the mute button.
Relatedly, a bit of activism-via-Twitter-handle: the "real name" on the @boycottRIAA account was updated to "$80.000 a song" to reflect the decision just handed down that penalizes a Minnesota woman $2 million for downloading 24 songs.
The White House blog announces a Bo "baseball card." That's an "official portrait," by the way. For a dog.