Quite often in my Internets travels, I come across blog posts, articles, and other online stuff that I find supremely interesting but aren't worth writing up a whole dang post about. Still, I care about you and want to share this material with you in some way. (I'm compassionate like that, as evidenced by my rather extraordinary score of 56 on this scientific-ish online empathy test. I found the test via Matt Yglesias, who scored a significantly below-average 14. I'm not sure what to do with that.) To that end, I'm going to try occasionally pulling together those links and posting them for your enjoyment. Yup, I know it's been done elsewhere online, but it's new to me. Here's our first attempt:

• Dan "citizen media" Gillmor himself points to this Mercury News three-year investigation of the Santa Clara county court system as evidence of why "We Still Need Big Media."
  
  
• Stirling Newberry says that Daily Kos has jumped the shark (a phrase that I could happily live the rest of my life never hearing again) and has devolved into a "screamsphere." He's never going back there, he says.
  
  
• The Nation has a piece by Jeff Faux called "The Party of Davos" that sketches out the idea of a governing global elite, separated from the rest of us schmucks by class. I'm sympathetic to the idea, but Faux doesn't really bring the steak to the party, if you know what I'm saying.

And there we have it.