• The chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the emails from scientists at the University of East Anglia made public in an episode now, of course, called "Climategate" are being seen through a flawed lens -- one that blurs personal digital communications and public performance. "It's one thing for someone to express anger or anguish in private," says Rajendra Pachauri. "It's quite another to translate that into action."
• TSA has not, alas, yet mastered the art of digital redaction.
• A Tennessee mayor gets into Facebook trouble for saying that Obama stole Christmas.
• What's behind a collaborative Copenhagen newswire that features coverage from Mother Jones, the Nation, Grist, and others. (via @agolis)
• Event notice: Harvard's Berkman Center is holding a session on the "digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election."
• And just because it's a new one on me, check out the software license known as WTFPL. And no, it's NSFW.

(With Anthony Russomano)