CJR Daily on a new study, "Depression, Drink and Dissipation", looking at 187 famous journalist-literary figures from history and their carousing self-destructive ways. Question: Did the booze and emotional problems make them good writers/journalists, or were they good writer/journalists in spite of them? (thanks, Kevin!)

After more than five years of trying to hunt down and eliminate al Qaeda's leaders, U.S. intelligence officials are dismayed that new ones are emerging. The article makes the point that Iraq will provide the next generation after that -- and they'll be darned good terrorists.

The NYT's Richard Siklos analyzes what the online video wars are all about. In a few words, control and proximity.

A Wired magazine writer working on a story about a Microsoft project mistakenly received a 5,500-word memo about him from a PR firm doing work for Microsoft. In the words of Run-DMC, he's "Tricky. Tricky. Tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky!"