Post Wusses Out [FishbowlDC]
The free-wheeling world of blogging appears to be too much for the Washington Post. After getting all "tech-no-logical" with their constellation of blogs, it only took one serious flaming of Deborah Howell for the Post to cave like the stone age media behemoth it is.

Comments, Feedback? [MBToolbox]
Opening your blog up to comments can be risky business: you run the risk of being flamed or spammed. Many blog platforms offer the option of approving comments before they're posted, but spam is still a problem.

Steve Alperin Becomes Senior Broadcast Producer For ABCNews.com [TVNewser]
Peter Jennings' long-time writer and producer, Steve Alperin, has been named senior broadcast producer for ABCNEWS.com.

Textual analysis goes deeper than imagined [Galleycat]
What with the continued brouhaha about fiction vs. memoir and its extension to the debate about how to classify Elie Wiesel's NIGHT -- especially keeping in mind that what we read in English isn't necessarily what he wrote in the first place -- it seemed like a good idea to get further opinion from someone who'd devoted time and research to the Yiddish and English version of Wiesel's work.

The New Yorker - it's just like Us! [FishbowlNY]
This is pure, unadulterated gossip, but it's cute and fun and unites two of the city's favorite magazine success stories, The New Yorker and Us Weekly (though their geneses have been somewhat, er, different).

Oscar nightmare: When being called 'original' is the worst name in the book [FishbowlLA]
Yesterday, Variety broke some Oscar news about "Syriana" -- news which despite being out there for weeks, no one had picked up on.

Reconsidering Design [Unbeige]
If you are semi-young, have found one of those career-type jobs, and have been doing a lot of rexamination lately as to where it is you are in your development as an artist, a designer, a businessperson, etc., this is the one essay you must read: Reconsidering Design.