Net guru Michael Geist has a good column on the "walled gardens" of social networking sites. You want to talk to your MySpace friend from your Facebook account? Sorry.

The Tyee cribbed a story first published at Alternet by filmmaker/journo Rory O'Connor: 'Citizen Journalism' grows up. O'Connor tripped over to South Korea for a conference sponsored by OhMyNews, a success story in the world of CJ.

O'Connor's personal blog is The Media is a Plural.

Here's some of the Tyee's favourite independent reads (they included Bourque; ewwww).