Observe. Hack. Make. That was the name of the event that drew over 3,000 people to a pasture in northern Holland last week. Every attendee is considered a volunteer, and the atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration is palpable and refreshing. So was the utter concern with the state of privacy, freedom of speech, human rights, and the future of the internet. The conference started off with an address - delivered remotely - by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and it just got better after that. Here's a selection of some of my favorite titles.

Open Source Bach. It was an idea so simple yet completely audacious that it made the front pages of BoingBoing and Slashdot, was written about in Wired, The New Yorker, F.A.Z., Spiegel, La Stampa, and brought together a diverse team that included a publisher, a piano manufacturer, and a notation software company. At the center of it all was pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, my wife and muse.