Mark Cuban

EDIT, 4:22 — Need to switch these weeklies up so they can account for things we read on Sundays. Such as: Just read Mark Cuban’s hat-in-the-ring post on this week’s popular Free debate. Mark wins this one by being realistic and thinking from the business point of view… Each company offering Free can’t last forever, but it can make money now. Full disclosure: I haven’t read Chris Anderson’s book that started it all. Mostly because it’s not free.

3. Data lags on Obama’s stylish Web site: The most wonderful quote is probably the one about Obama’s site “projecting” openness. Instead of offering it.
2. The Myth Of Original Creators: A fine look at copyright and creativity, touching on Shakespeare and Robert Johnson. Here’s where the fun really begins — a remixed version of this link could feature the phrase “squirting Brad Pitt’s Poops into a blog,” Techdirt’s article got many more comments than the originals it samples, and Techdirt remixes Rene Kita’s gender by referring to him as a “she.”
   
1. Slow internet week? Not once this marvel turned up on who-knows-which blog (if anyone can tell who found this, please report):