Eternal vigilance ...

... remains the price of liberty. Galley Cat wonders: Mashup Culture Strangled in the Crib? I sure hope not. The more voices, the better for all of us. My free market bona fides are as good as anyone's, and I have become increasingly suspicious of corporatiions -- principally because I see them as a threat to free enterprise. They also tend to strangle initiative and innovation. Instead, they institute ever more layers of procedural protocol in a misguided attempt to exercise greater and greater central control. What they could use -- including the one I work for -- is less restraint and more improvisation, along with the risk-taking that entails.