A brief round-up of links you might have missed. Feel free to send suggestions to gin.dumcius (at) gmail.com or mwdeehan (at) gmail.com.

1. Okay, so the Menino administration's response to the Globe's public records request (and the subsequent ones that have rained down) could be worse.

2. WBUR'S Bob Oakes interviews a UMass-Boston poli-sci prof (and one of the best ones on campus) about the email controversy and its impact on the upcoming Nov. 3 election.

3. PR guy extraordinaire David Guarino notes via Twitter: "Only non-press to read Kineavy email will be folks searching for themselves - like flip to autobiography index to see if you get mention."

4. Blast magazine looks into the email controversy.

5. Staffers at the East Boston Times-Free Press must have slept in the day FOIAs and public records were covered in journalism school. (Via Universal Hub.) We're here to help, though. Here's a link to the secretary of state's guide to the open records law. Feel free to come back to us if you have trouble with any big words.