– Michael Arrington gets spat on at the DLD Conference in Munich, then writes a worthy manifesto about how people’s feelings about TechCrunch — or any publication, really — shouldn’t evolve into a threat to the safety of editors and those they love.
– The Electronic Frontier Foundation isn’t keen on whitehouse.gov hosting YouTube vids.
– Ethical banking/retail firm Co-operative Group received licensing rights to use Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind, a ’60s-era antiestablishment song, in an ad. It breaks next week.
– Most awful Super Bowl video in history.
– Ad Land’s Karl Lagerfeld.
– Right vs. wrong in social media.
– Taglines for the US of A.
