Vin Crosbie gives us an update on his progress on the 21st-century business plan for newspaper publishing. Curious to see how it reads for those of us without print editions, too. Stay tuned, I guess.

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How often do you get a first-hand take on recent history? The Fog of War, which we saw two nights ago, is a fantastic film. Robert McNamara has a story to tell and it’s fascinating to listen to a significant participant in some of the most tumultuous moments of the 1960s. I don’t kow what…

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Psssttt… http://alerts.news.com is now open for (beta) business. Use the feedback form to suggest improvements.

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I’m a casual user of Omni Outliner. I never found Radio Userland’s outliner to my liking. But I do like the organization imposed by outlines, so I found my way [via Scripting.com] to this oh-so-in-depth survey of outliner user interfaces. I need to sleep more than I need to read this right now, but I…

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“…if nothing else, the Internet is a fearsomely effective way to lose time.” Rupert Godwin of ZDNet UK, on a WiFi-enabled train trip of over 4 hours. [via Jeff Carlson (.thought)]

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Chaos here for the Super Bowl, with 8 kids running/crawling/sitting around, none older than 3-1/2 years old. So I guess it’s understandable that even with TiVo, I didn’t watch the game very closely. And the ads were disappointing… very few worthy of watching or a rewind. The Janet Jackson disrobing, however, did garner a few…

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Tim Bray details his experience with using Google AdSense on his blog. He’s making some money… of course, he was well known prior to blogging, and he’s earned a solid readership with his blog. The interesting points to me are: Google knows his traffic, down to the individual page level. He finds this useful, since…

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Martin Nisenholtz’s keynote at the SIIA conference three days ago comes to me via E-Media Tidbits, the Poynter group blog. Rich Gordon also pointed to Larry Pryor’s 2002 article describing the ‘third wave’, with credit to Vin Crosbie (whose big promise comes due shortly). Nisenholtz is the CEO of NYTimes Digital, which publishes, most prominently,…

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Fascinating Michael Crichton speech from April 2002 on why speculation is so futile — and the media has fallen farther and farther because of their willingness to indulge in this (yes) idle speculation. Even though the speculation is correct only by chance, which means you are wrong at least 50% of the time, nobody remembers…

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I haven’t read the usability guidelines (128 page PDF linked from this page), but of all the things my tax dollars could go to, this isn’t the worst.

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