Funny. You wake up one morning, and you find something you didn't really listen to disappeared almost a month ago.

I speak of CBC's The National Playlist -- strangely, without Peter Mansbridge. :)

I'm glad they killed it. The 50 Tracks list from which it sprang was one thing, but listening to music hipsters have formulaic arguments five days per week , culminating in people voting online for their favourite tracks, struck me as a forced exercise in interactivity.

And it proved impossible to keep the energy level up. I certainly tuned it out.

Save that idea for perhaps an end-of-year special.

While I hear the dulcet tones of Bill Richardson on CBC Radio One as I write, I'm not entirely sure what the replacement show is about.

NYT media columnist David Carr said this year's crop of Pulitzer Prizes, awarded last Monday, show the press has resumed its adversarial role in its relationship with the U.S. federal government. The reaction of some conservative critics would suggest that's true.

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This NYT story talks about how a thin, plastic, foldable newspaper with constantly changing text is a thing of the present.

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Pulitzer Prize winner Michael A. Hiltzik had been an LA Times business columnist and blogger. The blog has been taken away. His offence? Posting comments on other blogs (and his own) under an assumed name.

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Osama bin Laden calls for holy war in Sudan and Palestine, and the ingrate governments there distanced themselves from him. The nerve!

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Tech journalist Clive Thompson takes a look at Google's presence in China. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but what I've seen so far is both informative and fascinating. Check it out.