Finally decided you've had enough of scrapers stealing your content? Here's one blogger's guide, based on first-hand experience, to deploying the nuclear option: a DMCA takedown notice. (The law itself is kind of a mascot of "intellectual property" excess, so you'll need to make your own decisions about the ethics of using it.)

Looking for Web 2.0 conferences and events? Here's a pretty big list.

Good lord. If I didn't know any better, I'd say this is… kinda, sorta… free Windows for your Mac. At least, until the beta runs out.

A neat little blogger pitch for an anti-tobacco campaign made it easier than ever to post about them: they included a widget.

A Northern Voice session on how social media can help people cope with – and reduce the stigma of – mental illness is spawning something bigger: a daylong conference is starting to coalesce.