• Red represents Flickr photographs taken by tourists, blue by "locals," in some neat city visualizations from Eric Fischer.
• The Catholic Church's abuse scandals don't seem to get much traction in social media land.
• Mignon Clyburn, who has somewhat surprisingly emerged as a strong reform-minded advocate from her perch on the Federal Communications Commission, has launched a blog. But those looking for policy nitty gritty might want to look elsewhere. Clyburn Chat "is not meant to be all-encompassing," offered Clyburn in her first entry. "[I]t will focus more on the interesting people I meet and events I attend when I travel throughout the country and abroad."
• From West Africa: "Alliance Guinea and AfricanElections.org, in partnership with the National Independent Election Commission and others in Guinea are about to launch “Guinea Vote 2010 Witness” -- an SMS- and internet- based election monitoring effort using Ushahidi technology."
• And some punk named Scola profiles public domain advocate Carl Malamud.

(With Micah Sifry)