Saw this first at Zerby's blog: Mark Hamilton, a B.C. j-teacher, tried to do a round-up of blogging and Canadian newspapers.

His results are posted at Blue Plate Special.

Dan Gillmor, who blogs at bayosphere and wrote We The Media, is writing a series of columns on citizen journalism for the BBC website in the coming weeks. His brief description of web mashups is the most interesting thing in this one.

Americans' view of Islam are worse right now than they were right after the 9/11 terror attacks, a new ABC News-Washington Post poll has found.

From the BBC:

Asadi denies the charge of offending Islam Yemeni prosecutors have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says. Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his publication, the Yemen Observer, showed the Danish cartoons in February. He denies the charges of offending Islam, under which he is being tried. The English-language newspaper has had its licence to publish suspended, although its staff have continued to produce material online. Prosecutors reportedly requested that the Yemen Observer be closed permanently and have its property and assets confiscated. The paper's website reported that the prosecution lawyers cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer. The trial was adjourned until 22 March.

The sectarian violence in Iraq has the U.S. ambassador to that country warning of possible civil war. With the kidnappings of 50 security men and other mayhem in recent days, the BBC's Jim Muir tries to analyze the chaos.

Poor, beleaguered Wal-Mart is trying to get free enterprise-loving bloggers everywhere on its side.

Knight-Ridder, the U.S.'s second-largest newspaper chain, goes on the block today. And its selling price could say much about what the smart-money people think about the future of the mainstream news media.

When Chile elected its first socialist as president since Salvadore Allende in January, the political sea change seemed to mark a social one as well.

This NYT story comes a bit late, seeing as Brokeback Mountain didn't have a big day at the Oscars, but it finds part of the movie's basic theme isn't that uncommon in American life.