This is an interesting and potentially worrisome decision (more later; gotta go to work). This California judge ruled that the right to protect trade secrets trumped a journalist's right to protect the confidentiality of sources.

He didn't address a topic many wanted answered: Whether bloggers should be considered journalists.

According to a new report, you had a 73 per cent chance of hearing the views of Fox News's on-air editorial staff in that cable news station's reportage on Iraq last year -- way more than the other two main cable channels.

The Three Amigos are going to launch a version of Metro, the free paper aimed at commuters, in Vancouver.

And there's plans to go beyond that. in the coming years.

The Toronto Star's Thomas Walkom takes a skeptical look at Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's claims of his province being sucked dry by Ottawa.

This NYT piece looks at how liberal bloggers are trying to build relationships with the MSM to see more of their news filter up.

This BBC piece looks at the efforts of the new administration of Viktor Yushchenko to put the cronyism and corruption of old-style Ukrainian politics behind.

This BBC Online article looks at China's growing military power and resultant self-confidence. It was published Saturday, but has already been overstripped by events.

This NYT story explores an issue that drives newspaper publishers nuts: While people are willing to spend 99 cents to download 50 Cent, they won't spend 50 cents to read news online.

That's not quite accurate, but I was going for cleverness. Call it blogtistic licence. :)