links for 2007-02-08

Heather Brooke on the current attacks on the Freedom of Information Act: “An empowered, informed electorate utilising its right to know is proving too much for some politicians.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the US Department of Defense comes after it failed to respond to FOIA requests about how it monitors soldiers blogs.

An uncluttered word processor “for Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world.”

Steve Outing on the next generation of news consumers: “to them the printed newspaper is about as useful and convenient as a rotary-dial phone is in the era of the smart cell phone.”

Andrew Grant-Adamson on free newsapapers: “The day the Metro gets hold of a secret American video of their planes shooting British troops I will think about changing my mind.”

Jemima Kiss is blogging from the We Media conference in Miami.