1:55 p.m. College St. and University Ave. Waiting for a west-bound streetcar to take me home after a fine Indian buffet lunch at Kama (Simcoe and King) with a buddy after an earlier chance encounter with two former co-workers.

And then there she was, in all her vice-regal splendor: Gov-Gen. Adrienne Clarkson!

Yo, anonymous, obnoxious, defamatory online trolls: Screw with someone bad enough and they will find you out.

James Ridgeway of the Village Voice muses about what tightening global oil supplies might eventually mean when you have two heavyweights, China and the U.S., after the same carbon-based economic elixir.

The passionate, road rage-prone French are being told to take a lesson in driving civility from their more self-disciplined and courteous Brit counterparts.

The NYT on why CNN president Jonathan Klein would like to see each viewer watch 30 seconds more of his station each month over the next 12 months.

Democracy Now! talks with a Spanish journalist and the brother of a Spanish TV cameraman who was killed in the April 8, 2003 attack on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by U.S. forces. They are in the U.S. to lobby for an independent investigation into the incident.

Josh Howard, who became executive producer of 60 Minutes II just in time for Rather-gate, has settled with CBS and is now out the door.

Here's a piece I did on the Conservative convention. It's an overview of whether the Tories can expect a signficant bounce in the opinion polls following their policy makeover.

Having a blog editor even two years ago would have almost been unthinkable in the staid world of newspaper journalism.

But some MSM orgs are getting with the program and experimenting with how they can utlilize blogs and other new technologies to enhance the old media experience.

Ourmedia is a new citizen media project spearheaded by online vet J.D. Lasica.

This global, grassroots, open-source projects allows you to store your digital creations forever, for free, so long as you agree to share and ...   more »

Google News, the automated news aggregation service that should have human editors worried, is being sued by Agence France Presse, and the fallout could impact throughout cyberspace.

Toronto Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias takes a run at the NYT's MoDowd for snivelling about the dearth of women columnists -- but then agrees there is an imbalance.

According to this Alternet article about a new book (A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West), Japan's MSM is the most mistrusted in the world. The thing is, it doesn't sound that different in many ways from the U.S. MSM! :)

However, you'd expect a left-leaning U.S. website to say, that, wouldn't you?

A campaign across some regions of the U.S. are trying to convince their residents to keep their towns weird by buying from individual retailers.

I also include a link to a Globe story from the weekend about Queen St. West's ongoing evolution.

It's a trend that first took off in Britain, but now U.S. newspapers are considering a shift to tabloid size.

While they might have preferred to see John Kerry win, liberal magazines in the U.S. say that Dubya's re-election has sent their circulations soaring skyward.

It is rare that people aligned with the two main American political tribes rips their own, but NYT columnist David Brooks (who some see as a faux conservative anyway, given who he writes for) lets some U.S. conservative activists have it.

The coverage I've seen of the Conservative Party policy convention focused on the new, moderate face the party was putting forward.

A question I haven't seen asked is what happened to all the social conservatives and hard-nosed Reformers from the last Alliance configuration that helped populate the Conservatives until, er, Sunday.

OK, one reason for his bias is the Washington Post reporter works in the MSM. But he has other reasons -- ones that I completely agree with.

Oldboy is a South Korean film I've seen on DVD (thanks, Ammo Video!) that requires you to consider this question: If forced to choose between love and revenge, which one would you pick?

OK, that's slightly wildly out of context. The NYT is actually talking about how deer have become a nuisance -- a plague, even -- in suburban areas.

The NYT's Frank Rich finds much comparable between the communications strategies of Dubya's administration and one of Dubya's good old buddies from Houston: Kenneth Lay of Enron.

Mr. Gannon, the right-wing fake reporter and objet du flesh who was ripped apart by frenzied liberal bloggers last month, does a Q-and-A with the NYT Mag's Deborah Solomon.

Remember Shock and Awe -- or, more properly, shocknawe? Comical Ali? Jessica Lynch?

Relive those halcyon days with a BBC Online photo interactive, which looks back at the second anniversary of the start of the Iraq War on March 19, 2003. There is also a video report for each day.

Maureen Dowd, continuing on with what seems to be her winter of opining on the battle between the sexes, talks about genetically simplistic menfolk and why the X chromosome kicks ass.

Hi blog visitor(s). I'm going out of town for a few days. I won't be blogging. Will be back posting on Sunday.

But if you find something cool, please leave me a note about it down in the comments section. Mucho thankso. [ /30 ]

George Lessard posted this to CAJ-L, where I saw it. The story details the final days of what the L.A. Times says was the troubled life of Gary Webb, reporter of the notorious Dark Alliance series in the mid-1990s.

This NYT piece looks at dealing with any number of issues that bring avoidable stress into one's life.

And afterwards, I ask for advice on coping with one of my pet peeves! :)

The NYT and Washington Post hold forth on the Bush administration's distribution of pre-made news for a sundry assortment of television stations.

Well, not quite -- my blog didn't get an award (pout, pout).

The feds have hired an NGO to help train Iraqi journalists at a facility in Lebanon.

The company that called bullshit on Enron, as Salon puts it, is now predicting which global energy companies will see their oil production hit a historical peak before beginning an irreversible decline.

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviewed Laurie Garrett, formerly of Newsday, where she had worked since 1988.

Dubya's office isn't particularly apologetic for having foisted government-produced video news releases on TV stations -- who then run them as news without propagandist-of-origin labelling.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists -- who share the online home journalism.org -- released The State of the News Media 2005 on Monday, its second annual look at American journalism.