A great article in The New Yorker about Ai Weiwei, an artist and activist in China.   Ai Weiwei: "It's Not Beautiful"

In a sense, he's just your typical artist: a guy who likes attention and uses the neurotic, control-frenzied government to stay in the limelight.  I love him anyway. 

Twitter is blocked in China, but he accesses via an offshore server and twitters constantly.  He has invited his Twitter followers in China to join him for dinner and hundreds of Twitter followers have showed up at the restaurant for dinner.  So do the police.  He watches them watching him and twitters.  This is not about popularity; it's about breaking through the internet firewalls in China.  It's about forcing the formation of a more open society.  I love this guy.