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Lawrence Lessig discusses Change-Congress.org, a online tool for users to tag congressional candidates as supporting or opposing reforms such as public financing, earmark reform, and congressional transparency. Lessig also responds to a few questions about InternetForEveryone.org, a coalition of public interest and industry groups working for open, universal, and affordable access to broadband.

Forbes Puts the Spotlight on Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly
"If the do-it-yourself trend is a revolution, then Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly are its Tom Paines," writes reporter Elizabeth Corcoran in a recent Forbes.com story, Making Future Headlines. Thomas Paine, if you recall, was America's cerebral, revolutionary activist and the author of a mightily influential 1776 pamphlet, "Common Sense," supporting the American colonies independence from Great Britain. Like Paine, Tim, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, and Dale, editor and publisher of Make, are "awfully good at spotting trends," writes Corcoran. So good, in fact, that Forbes also included the pair in their photo feature on techno-wizards--"In Pictures: Eight People Inventing The Future."

What developers should know about IP
Author Van Lindberg is both software engineer and practicing attorney. His new book, Intellectual Property and Open Source tackles the slippery subject of intellectual property. In this interview, Van explains why intellectual property law is so important to developers—any developers—and

David Pogue's Hot iPhone Tips
David Pogue returns with a thoroughly updated edition of iPhone: The Missing Manual. And here David reveals his best, up-to-the-nanosecond iPhone tricks. "The beauty of the new iPhone 3G is that you don't need one," explains David. "Almost all of the juicy stuff actually comes with the iPhone 2.0 software and the online App Store, both of which run perfectly well on the old iPhone as well." Find out how to geotag photos, turn off 3G in order to save on battery life, produce accented characters, and easily tap out contractions.

How to Write Your Own Facebook Applications
I recently had a chance to ask Jesse Stay, author of FBML Essentials a few questions about his book and just why it's so important right now. His book revolves around the fundamentals of the Facebook Markup Language--Facebook's version of HTML--which makes it easy to develop applications specifically for Facebook. If you can think of a niche that hasn't yet been filled in the Facebook application world, but don't quite know how to build one yourself, then this book is for you. Keep reading to see why Jesse wrote this book, as well as how you can win your own copy of this essential reference.

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