Larry Downes, author of the excellent Laws of Disruption and a new colleague at the Tech Liberation Front, notes the proliferation of patent lawsuits in the mobile phone world and points toward this good graphic in the New York Times to help make his point, that “It’s both much worse and not as bad as it seems”:

Longtime news and media executive Gordon Crovitz has for the last half-year been writing a terrific column on the “Information Age” — this week on the new copyright agreement between Google and book publishers.