News noted

* Sharecropping the Long Tail. A short but interesting observation on the economic system created by web services based on user-provided content.

* The Robert A. Heinlein Centennial conference will be held in Kansas City on July 6-8 of 2007. Anyone interested in going? It may be a very strange gathering, considering all the widely divergent interest groups to which RAH has some significance. Will the armchair anarchists who loved The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress mount a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the pro-military Starship Troopers faction? And what will the Lazarus Long-inspired polyamorists be doing meanwhile? (Do we want to know?)