It's now past my bedtime, but The A Daily Show and the Colbert Report are back on the air -- sort of.

From a Jan. 7 AP story:

A Mississippi Blues Trail marker will be placed at the birthplace of Elvis Presley on Tuesday.

The ceremony will honor Presley for his contribution to Mississippi and America's blues heritage.

He was born in Tupelo on Jan. 8, 1935. Presley died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn., on Aug. 16, 1977. He first encountered the blues in Tupelo, and it remained central to his music throughout his career.

His early recordings helped revolutionize popular music with a unique mix of blues and country music, which led many rock 'n' roll artists to follow his lead.

"By all accounts, Elvis Presley was the single greatest influence on modern-day rock 'n' roll in America, and much of his musical inspiration drew on the Mississippi blues," Gov. Haley Barbour said in a statement Friday.

Here's my post on Elvis's 70th birthday.

Off The Bus is a project conceived by NYU j-prof Jay Rosen, who runs the citizen journalism site NewAssignment.net, and executed in conjunction with the Huffington Post.

Here's how OJR describes it:

Late last year we told you about the Networked Journalism Summit, an all-day gathering of industry influencers with a collective sight set on a functional juxtaposition of citizen and traditional journalism.

The Huffington Post looks to create that with its new election-season site, Off The Bus, a mash-up digest of feature articles, opinion pieces, polls and videos solicited from a gamut of trad-pub newsies, grassroots bloggers and distributive data journalists. Since its September launch, Off The Bus has been among the most comprehensive pool of election fodder available on the Web, sifting hundreds of daily submissions for insightful "ground-level coverage," as they describe it, of the 2008 campaign season.

It's much more than an aggregator, and this project has some groundbreaking projects of its own. The work-in-progress Polling Project digs behind the scenes of the polls that dominate our spoon-fed MSM election coverage, encouraging pollees to spill the beans on that dinnertime phone call. Also on deck: an interactive map exploring campaign contributions by race and zip code and an exit-poll insider forum for staffers of losing campaigns.

The full article has an interview with Marc Cooper, a j-prof at USC's Annenberg School of Communications, who is the project's editorial co-ordinator.

Addendum

For tonight's purposes, trying to follow the New Hampshire primary online, I would say the NYT or MSNBC proved to be a better use of my time than On The Bus. The H-P home page provided breaking news; however, I find myself perplexed as to why that content wasn't duplicated at the On The Bus homepage.

I particularly liked Katherine Q. Seelye's live blog at nyt.com.

Merrill Lynch would seem to think so. From the BBC:

Merrill Lynch said that the figures showing the jobless rate hitting 5% in December were the final piece in that puzzle.

"According to our analysis, this isn't even a forecast any more but is a present day reality," the report said.

Here's what Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly did at a Hillary Clinton rally in New Hampshire last Friday:

He stood in the audience and urged an audience member to ask the New York senator and former first lady about her plan to remove troops from Iraq.

Given there was some words directed in anger at the CBC after word got out that a Corpse reporter had allegedly passed some questions on to a Liberal MP on the Commons ethics committee to ask former prime minister Brian Mulroney during his appearance over l'affaire Schreiber, I would expect principled conservatives to condemn O'Reilly's actions.

President Pervez Musharraf lifted the state of emergency he imposed, yet Geo TV, Pakistan's most popular private TV station, remains off cable TV.