Freedom In the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

This article is important. It's a bit longer than a typical blog post but if you're involved in social networking,  internet technologies, or publishing stuff on the Web, it's information you need. It explains how we ended up with the spying-riddled, antiprivacy networks of today and what we need to do to make the next, better set of services and networks for ourselves.