• Two nights back, about 150 people gathered in London to brainstorm about how they might help to building out Prime Minster David Cameron's vision of a networked "Big Society," and a quick video recap of the essence of the event is above. You might also check out Your Square Mile, a flagship project of the initiative. "There are 93,000 square miles in the UK," goes the mission statement. "We tend to only hear about two of them: the square miles of the City and Westminster. The Big Society Network is about enabling you to make changes in the square mile where you live and/or work: the other 92,998 square miles."
• One self-described government web geek in the UK sees a changing relationship between innovators and the political establishment that country: "It’s starting to feel like we can retire some of those old soapboxes and get out our toolboxes instead."
• Here in the U.S., Health and Human Services CTO -- and HealthCare.gov sherpa -- Todd Park gets celebrated by Fast Company as #48 in the list of top 100 most creative in business for the year.
• C-SPAN and link shortener bit.ly officially announce the partnership that has resulted in the birth of the tiny cs.pn. (That link's a PDF. Don't get me started.)
• Local radio meets community organizing in the new iPhone app by Boston station WBUR.
• Today's the one-year anniversary of the imprisonment of Azerbaijani bloggers behind government-spoofing video featuring a person in a donkey suit.
• And, a warning about distributed computing: '"The cloud' is a dirigible filled with hydrogen."

(With Micah Sifry)