Photojournalist Nick Ut reminisces about this June 1972 photo taken after a napalm attack on a Vietnamese village.

The Globe and Mail's take on the marketing opportunities available to NBA MVP Steve Nash -- if he wants to take them.

An investigation into work by Wired News freelancer Michelle Delio has found 40 sources who can't be located. But the writer is saying there is no fabrication involved.

Online Journalism Review's Mark Glaser writes on the Blog Nashville conference. I also include a link to a Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds column and some other stuff.

The Strolling Drones (as one Edmonton Journal music writer once termed them), will be hitting concert hotspots like Moncton, N.B. late this summer in support of their first  studio album in eight years!

Ho hum.

Here is what visitors to this blogspace clicked on most in April:

On Sunday, I reviewed Downfall, the German film about the last days of the Nazi regime.

This article from Sunday's Toronto Star has some interesting information about how Germans deal psychologically with memories of the war.

The NYT's Adam Cohen wrote a column Sunday on the question of blogger's ethics.

I also include some reaction to it from Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine.

A group of bloggers converged on Nashville, Tenn. to learn how to find the facts to back up their often vigorously-expressed opinions.

But a few things on the conference agenda raised my eyebrows and made me think the gulf between serious bloggers and journalists could well shrink in the coming years.

First saw this at The Huffington Post: Editor and Publisher is reporting on the recommendations of an internal NYT committee that examined ways to bolster reader confidence in the newspaper.

UPDATE: I've added links to the Times' story plus the actual report and the executive editor's preliminary response.

The Huffington Post ("Delivering news and opinion since May 9, 2005"), a group celebrity blog fronted by columnist Ariana Huffington, is now available for your reading pleasure.

For an earlier post on this, click here.

This Toronto Star commentary castigates the news media for violating the privacy of crime victims.

The NYT's Frank Rich rips the April 30 White House Press Corps dinner, saying it's essentially a promotional video for the Bush White House.

Pizza helps end a prison hostage-taking in Australia.

Coming to a cinematic judgment on Downfall is easy: It's a very fine film. Arriving at an intellectual conclusion in response to its arguments is the tough part.

Personally, I think there's an argument to be made that Downfall veers too closely to propaganda.

Gawker Media's Nick Denton has just the fluid to cool down overheated expectations of the "blog revolution."

No, this is not a prostate problem story: It focuses on the ethical swamp of background briefings and "anonymous" leaks that many journalists find themselves wading through on a daily basis.

John Gushue, who blogs at Dot Dot Dot, has compiled a handy little round-up of satirical sites on the Internet.

Another tidbit I saw there: Stephen Colbert will be leaving The Daily Show for his own show on Comedy Central.

Good for Stephen. Bad for Daily Show viewers. :)

Montreal's a great city in many ways, but why does its beer scene suck so badly when compared to Toronto?

I don't normally care very much about sports, but I posted an excerpt from a Toronto Star column about NBA superstar (and Canadian!) Steve Nash, who might have hurt his ability to earn big marketing bucks by speaking out against the Iraq war.

Well, Mr. Nash may well be named the NBA's most valuable player, according to ESPN.

Update: And he was! This CTV.ca story has video of an interview with him on Canada AM.

A Sudanese editor rejects charges that he questioned the parentage of the Prophet Muhammad -- an accusation that can get a person killed in deeply Muslim Sudan.

The Vatican ordered the removal of the Jesuit editor of an American Catholic magazine because he criticized the church, the NYT is reporting.

First, there was the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925. And in 2005, the Kansas State Board of Education is holding hearings on a proposal to require the challenging of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

The NYT's Thomas L. Friedman holds forth (in part) on Jon Stewart and the Daily Show as a source of news. I add my own thoughts.

This BBC Online story looks at the countries who are planning to pull out of the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq.

Mohamed ElBaradei  is blowing a proverbial head gasket over North Korea's apparent preparations for a nuclear weapons test.

But some are wondering if this is all part of a very high-stakes bluff by North Korea to force concessions out of the U.S.

Abu Faraj Farj al-Libbi was taken into custody earlier this week, and the BBC reports that Pakistani authorities claim the interrogation is proceeding apace.

I don't know if you saw The Globe and Mail on Thursday, but it had an interesting story about how just-re-elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair told The Sun, the Brit tabloid, that he has manfully pleasured Mrs. Blair up to five times in one night.

Canada's TV networks seek to leash the nattering nabobs of interruptionism during the leaders' debates for any future election campaign.

Richard Florida created buzz a few years ago with his book The Rise of the Creative Class, which was about how wealth was being created by ideas people.

In his new book, The Flight of the Creative Class, he talks about how the U.S. is losing its advantage as a destination of choice for the world's brightest people -- something that could both benefit and hurt Canada.

"Mumbai saw a few/New Dehli too/Sing another South Asian tune."

The reason I'm riffing off the Guess Who's Runnin' Back To Saskatoon is because this story is about Indian IT professionals returning to their home and native land -- and that has implications for the U.S. economy.

Thomas L. Friedman's latest book-length look at globalization is now out. As befitting a columnist of his stature, the NYT ran not one but two reviews:

This BBC article is a good primer to the world of broadband Internet access for the consumer. While it's not directly related to this blog's theme, it ties into what type of content/experience people will be able to have online.

Despite being an oil exporter, Norway aims to keep its own oil consumption down, in part through taxation. The price of gas is almost three times higher than the U.S., but it's not a huge political problem.

Apple has banned the sale of any books from publisher John Wiley and Sons at its stores because the computer bookmeisters had the temerity to publish an unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.

According to this NYT article, the U.S. is shipping terror suspects off to Uzbekistan, where they apparently make what the Syrians did to Maher Arar look like love taps.

Ted Koppel talks about leaving ABC's Nightline, what's wrong with network TV news and who does the best impression of him in an interview with the NYT Magazine.

The story of a heart-warming exchange between a father and his young daughter.