Slate's Jack Shafer writes a paean to Jim Romenesko's column, praising it for being a clearinghouse of all things journalistic - not to mention flypaper for incidents of ethical breaches, missteps and blatantly making things up. We concur. Romenesko has made it much easier to Albom-bash and Slater-watch (though my guess is it's made it more difficult to seal-hunt).** Alan Feuer, step on up...

**Though she does live in Halifax, we're pretty sure that Barbara Stewart is not Canadian.