Best stuff on the interwebs right now, according to ME

I'm on the road so posting is light. Go read some smart people.

Twitter, PIER, and communication technologies during Hurricane Ike by Gerald Baron

Using reading circles in a graduate seminar by Karen Russell

Large Hadron Collider comes online, world fails to end by Jonathan Gitlin

Financial Meltdown: Journalists Ignored the Early and Obvious Signs by Dan Gillmor

Nobody Gave a Crap About the FDIC Until Fairly Recently by Meg Marco