The Case Foundation yesterday opened a summer application window for its "Make It Your Own" awards.

A few months on from the controversial Net2 funding scrum, Case revisits similar philosophical ground with very different execution.

To begin with, it's a multi-staged process of "managed democracy" -- you know, like we have in the political sphere, except with some democracy -- instead of the free-for-all registration-and-voting process that drew heat for Net2.

Sam Smith's Progressive Review recovers a document that should look familiar to anyone who's written a grant proposal.

We have read your "Declaration of Independence" with great interest. Certainly, it represents a considerable undertaking, and many of your statements do merit serious consideration. Unfortunately, the Declaration as a whole fails to meet recently adopted specifications for proposals to the Crown, so we must return the document to you for further refinement.

The rest on the flip...