Dan Gillmor spoke at last year’s Accelerating Change conference and described some of the changes that the democratization of media has brought to our culture. The podcast of his session, We, the Media, is a great primer on the topic from someone who knows what he’s talking about.

In the category of copyright and intellectual property Lawrence Lessig’s The Comedy of the Commons and Cory Doctorow’s talk at the Web 2.0 conference are great starting points to understand how copyright and intellectual property law have been twisted in recent years to the detriment of the public good. (Did I give away my bias? Oops.)

These are huge issues that affect every one of us.