Politicians courting online users have a tough rope to tow, as John McCain recently found out when his MySpace page was hacked by Newsvine admin Mike Davidson. The blogosphere buzzed about it for days and Jon Stuart even saw fit to feature the prank on the Daily Show. Funny enough, and unfortunately for McCain, Davidson did not break any laws because McCain was sucking up Davidson's bandwidth; that naughty politician.

ThePublishingSpot had several interesting articles this week. Though I must say I was slightly disturbed by the idea of pirating books. It's hard enough to make a buck as a writer without the makers of fan fiction pre-publishing unofficial copies of your work. Illegal or not, this is wrong and taking it to the extreme. Will the birth of fan-screenwriting lead us down the same road?

Is the Japanese government planning to re-write history? According to TheBizofKnowledge author Bill Belew, the answer's a resounding YES. Our capitalist breathren to the East plan to alter 7 high school history books. Revisionist history is a scary thing but Japan would not be the first country to re-write history, to cast themselves in a more favorable light. Western countries have long gotten away with this historical cosmetic surgery, it is a shame it is spreading.