About 200 people have been killed in Iraq in the past two days. Al Qaeda has shifted its target from police recruits to Shiites. The Sunni Islamist terror group wants to provoke a civil war.

Zerby's blog has a great post about a satirical little Flash video about the most important person in the world.

This WorldNet Daily article was fuming about it, but courageously told people how to find it using Google.

Say, did you know if you link to something, it helps its Google ranking? Just a thought.

For more Google-bombing fun, do a search on failure and press "I'm feeling lucky."

Feels like 2003 all over again when stuff like this pops up! :)

A potpourri:

CanadianJournalist.ca: Locked-out CBC workers block satellite truck in Newfoundland, call workers 'scabs'. John Gushue, a locked out CBCer in St. John's, also has a posting on it at his dot-dot-dot blog.

Gushue also has a post rounding up some lockout news. He also makes note of an online petition started calling for an end to the lockout and the heads of CBC senior management.

CBC Unplugged has a post about management playing hardball with not-locked-out employees in Quebec and Moncton who don't want to do the work of their locked-out CMG colleagues.

And finally, Antonia Zerbisias has a big post of lockout stuff.

The Salon blurb: After Katrina, the country no longer believes in Bush the protector. His presidency is ruined.

The University of Missouri is opening a new think tank that it hopes will lead journalism into the digital future and reconnect it with audiences.

PM PM says he doesn't cross picket lines, and wouldn't do so if CBC sets up one at GG-designate Michaelle Jean's forthcoming swearing-in.

How do you keep going when you're a news outlet in a city that had no people to read you or businesses to buy ads? New Orleans is currently a living laboratory for that particular problem.

Byron Calame, the NYT's public editor, reviewed a decade's worth of NYT coverage of New Orleans.

He concluded in a Sept. 11 column that over the past decade, the paper did not draw enough attention to two of the key issues that have emerged since hurricane Katrina: Poverty and the levee system's inadequacies.

Michael Kinsley, the guy who brought us wikitorials, has been let go by the publisher of the Los Angeles Times. He was on the job a year.

The Associated Press will launch a service on Monday called ASAP, aimed directly at those elusive 18-34s. The content will be offered as "articles and 'experiences' in multimedia formats, with audio, video, blogs and wireless text."

Kevin Sites, who left CNN shortly after it told him he couldn't blog, will now do multimedia reports on the world's wars for Yahoo!. It starts Sept. 26.

While only Iraqis can report in some of the most dangerous areas, the U.S. military and Iraqi governments think some of them are covert insurgents.