San Francisco Chronicle: 
As Wikipedia moves to S.F., founder Jimmy Wales discusses planned changes and plans for expansion. The site, founded in 2001, now boasts 9.1 million articles in 252 languages, generating 244.5 million monthly visitors, making it the the Web's sixth largest website.  Ellen Lee has a Q&A with Wales.

Very sorry that I wasn't able to attend Heather and Jimmy's 50 Party Club in San Francisco tonight. 

San Francisco Chronicle: 12 of the 30 startups invited to this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, hail from Silicon Valley. Not bad. Among them: AdMob, Meraki and the newly transplanted Wikimedia Foundation. I still hope to make it to Davos one of these years.

I had missed this from Larry Lessig earlier this month:

The good folks at Sunlight Foundation have build this cool little viewing tool to let you see where the House "earmarks" are. "Earmarking" as you likely know is the ability of a member to tag funds for a "particular use or owner."
It will be a focus of my research. But long before I figure out
anything interesting about this bizarre institution (a big assumption,
I realize), you can see the where and how of this if you're willing to
let Google Earth be your viewer. Very cool.

Cover story in the current National Review (partial article): The Grim Truth.
Republicans face a calamitous political situation; but they can act to avoid it.

At the DailyKos, they're lovin' it.

The RSS feed reader Google Reader now makes recommendations. If you use Google Reader, you'll now see them at the top right. To my astonishment, the top three recommendations were feeds by media and tech bloggers whose feeds I thought I'd already subscribed to. Nice stuff.

Computerworld: Study: Charities use social media more than businesses. UMass research finds that large charities make strong use of blogs, online video and other Web 2.0 tools

Compassion in Politics blog: Revolution Now: Social media meets nonprofits.

NPR News Blog: Suggest a Question for the Democratic Presidential Candidates, in a debate Dec. 5 sponsored by NPR and Iowa Public Radio.

Salon's Machinist: Facebook: Shut down that privacy-invading ad program!

Friday's NY Times: Facebook retreats on online tracking.

It's the right -- and the smart -- thing for them to do.

Charlene Li at Harvard Business Review: Why Your Company Needs To Be on Facebook.

Don’t write off social networking sites as merely social playgrounds
for the young. Your customers, prospects, and employees are exploring
and extending their relationships there. Some of you will be bolder in
creating business value in these networks while others will wait for
the pioneers to carve out the paths. But ignore these new communities
only if you believe your customers are not there – and there are few
instances where this will be the case.

Tom Davenport at Harvard Business Review: Why Facebook and MySpace Won't Change the Workplace.