Here we are again with me snarking on Twitter about day 2 of the DNC convention while also delivering to you that high-quality snark here. So enjoy and snark amongst yourselves in the comments.

Tonight will include speeches from Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and former President Bill Clinton, as well as California AG Kamala Harris, Sandra Fluke and many others.

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Tonight will include the speech from Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, along with cranky old man John McCain. I’ve also heard that Condoleezza Rice is determined to speak inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum. Mike Huckabee gets his moment tonight as well.

When I sat down to read Friends, Followers and the Future by Rory O’Connor, I thought I knew what to expect. This is how I earn my living- by advising others on how best to integrate social media into their lives and work. The world that is social media is at best a microcosm of the world at large and at worst a poor substitute for the offline world, and I figured that it would be easy to read this book, digest it into manageable pieces and write this intro for today’s book salon.

I was wrong.

Savannah Dietrich, the 17-year-old victim *named with her and her parents’ written permission in the Louisville Courier Journal* now faces contempt charges requested by her convicted but not yet sentenced attackers’ attorneys for violating the confidentiality of the juvenile court system, which protected them from being named — until her Tweet.

The eighth episode of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange’s show, “The World Tomorrow,” is up and it features the Cypherpunks, people who Assange describes as being on the front lines of a war against cyber surveillance and a growing battle for control over technology.

Gil Scott Heron said it best; we cannot rely on so called journalists in the Mainstream Media to share our stories. Fortunately we don’t have to rely on the Media, because blogging and social media have given the individual the power to create his/her own media. Blogging allows for the instant publication of your story according to you, and with social media you can spread that information to millions of people instantaneously. Tonight’s panel can help you do that. Sign up here.

Twitter has moved to quash a court order requiring the company to hand over data on one of its users. The user, Malcolm Harris, an Occupy Wall Street protester who is being prosecuted in New York for disorderly conduct, has been battling a government subpoena for his communications, even though a court held he had no standing to protect his own privacy rights.

Its always heartbreaking when it comes time to take away Grandpa’s car keys; no one wants to do it, but after that little incident with the fire hydrant(s), we know it’s for his own good. Sadly, when the Grandpa in question is Rupert Murdoch, such potentially life-saving steps not only cannot be taken, but the heirs and hangers-on invariably do the opposite.

There will be a billion pixels spilt on these stories that you can read elsewhere by scholars, experts and journalists. What I’m most interested in is what works/worked for the media activists out there.

I think we should definitely be concerned that Twitter is bowing to pressure and allowing for the censorship of tweets in individual foreign countries.