New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg defends his decision to make public a potential terror threat against his city's transit system, while unnamed Dept. of Homeland Security officials say the "threat" wasn't that credible.

Democracy Now! speaks with investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss, author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.

That's the nickname coined for law blogs. This NYT story looks at the proliferation of law blogs and asks why it's happening.

An explanation of why so many lawyers dabble in politics may help explain: It's because law is so boring that you need an interesting hobby! :)

An article for Maissoneuve magazine by a National Post writer attempts to answer why Canuck bloggers haven't generated a shockwave of a scoop yet that rattles the Canadian political or media establishments.

The short answer is, because they're bloggers, not journalists. Duh!

The CBC had some ads up in TTC subway cars touting some of its blockbuster programs "coming soon" -- on people like Shania, Trudeau, Levesque and Gretzky.

But the "coming soon" part was a sticker. Underneath it, you easily could read "Coming on September 25."

The Toronto Sun is advertising free classified ads. To read about the strings attached to that kind offer, click here.

I don't know what triggered that move, but here's a link to an article about the impact of Craigslist on the U.S. newspaper industry.

And if that's not enough, Google wants to get in on the classified ads game.

This is important stuff to the newspaper industry. Classified ads can account for up to 50 per cent of a newspaper's revenue, according to a World Association of Newspapers report.

Two ethnic Chinese bloggers who dissed Islam and Muslims got a jail term in one case and a heavy fine in another.

Dubya gave a big speech Thursday on how the Islamists want to take over nations from Spain to Indonesia. And as if to underscore the dire nature of the threat, New York's subway system was reported to be at imminent risk of attack. Updated

James Yee was a former U.S. army chaplain and Muslim who worked at Guantanamao Bay. He was arrested and charged with espionage, specifically to pass information from enemy combatant detainees to al Qaeda -- a charge for which he could have received the death penalty if convicted

However, the U.S. government's case against him totally collapsed. Yee has written a book about his experiences entitled For God and Country: Faith and patriotism under fire.