Another point-of-view in the ongoing newspapers verses blogs as a source of trustworthy information debate: If online news services want to match the quality and depth of their print counterparts, they will need to hire, quite possibly, the very journalists working for the aforementioned newspapers. If online viewers want the level of news and opinion that print reporters generate, the Internet news services will hire reporters, defraying the cost out ... Read full entry

While the local newspaper I read offers pretty good real time news in regards to extreme weather events, such as storms, Scott Karp found The Washington Post's recent coverage of, and access to, news of a local storm left much to be desired. While he feels The Washington Post has a very helpful weather blog, which offers useful, real time information, it is near nigh impossible to locate, ... Read full entry

Traditional media (TV, newspapers, radio) has progressively been losing readers and viewers, as more people go online looking for information and entertainment. In a bid to redress the balance, media companies in conjunction with ISPs, are apparently preparing plans to limit the number of websites that will be available for general consumption, thus enforcing a television like viewing regime upon internet audiences. The entire media and marketing ... Read full entry

Tell everyone about your company's brand new blog, and do nothing more. Never post anything. The easiest way to have a blog that's crappy: Set up the blog, post once, and then never. post. again. This tip's great because it involves no work on your part. It's like you never created a blog at all. Which might have been better...

Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help? Jessica Enders challenges the notion that "zebra striping", that is applying faint shading to alternative lines of text or information, assists in better comprehending multiple rows of data, especially online. Her research revealed there was a 4 per cent difference in comprehension error rates when reading zebra striped data against non zebra striped information. Many believe that zebra stripes aid the reader by guiding the ... Read full entry

Starting with CSS and bug fixing tips An extensive, and excellent, list of books and websites to assist both novice and experienced web designers work with web standards, and iron out CSS bugs. This is one list you'll want to bookmark :)

Ten weirdest computers The Billiard Ball computer is my favourite. Basic computing circuits like half-adders can also be made. But making something as powerful as a microprocessor this way would require acres of space - unless your balls or dominoes are very small. Researchers at IBM have experimented with logic circuits that use cascades of atoms bouncing off each other like billiard balls to pass information along their length. ... Read full entry

Scouta has been named winner of the inaugural Australian Startups Carnival. Scouta is a "recommendation engine" that allows members to bookmark, rate, and recommend, online videos and podcasts. The carnival, which attracted approximately 30 submissions from Australian entrepreneurs and startup owners, makes for a great repository of business startup information and advice.

The battle for Wikipedia's soul. To be or not to be, that is the question facing the world's biggest encyclopedia Wikipedia, where editors from opposing "factions" are arguing about the direction editorial policy should take. ...Wikipedia is facing an identity crisis as it is torn between two alternative futures. It can either strive to encompass every aspect of human knowledge, no matter how trivial; or it can adopt a ... Read full entry

"Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow argues that ideas, knowledge, and information, should not be referred to as "property", as they are intangible and cannot effectively be owned by anyone once they have been shared with someone else. If you trespass on my flat, I can throw you out (exclude you from my home). If you steal my car, I can take it back (exclude ... Read full entry