When does a news story getting boring online: Two hours after posting? Four hours? Wrong.

A new study finds it's actually 36 hours.

The BBC, which has revenues of about $5.5 billion US per year, is finding that it's just not enough in these times of technological change. But its detractors are saying enough is too much.

A tiff over editorial independence has grown into a full rebellion at the Santa Barbara News-Press in California.

Parenting writer Ann Hulbert tackles the current social crisis du jour that Americans are running short on emotional confidants.

In an NYT feature about the decline of the CD store is this:

The neighborhood record store was once a clubhouse for teenagers, a place to escape parents, burn allowances and absorb the latest trends in fashion as well as music. But these days it is fast becoming a temple of nostalgia for shoppers old enough to remember “Frampton Comes Alive!’’

I, uh, guess it amused me because I am old enough to remember Frampton Comes Alive! :)

But it was pretty ubiquitous back in the day. After all, if it wasn't a defining article of 1970s North American suburban teenage culture, it wouldn't have gotten a reference in Wayne's World 2. :)

Relations have been gradually warming between Pakistan and India, but the Mumbai bombings may have changed that, finds this Beeb analysis.

The Beeb's Paul Reynolds looks at previous clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in south Lebanon.