"This week, we launched a redesign of TPM’s front page. This project has been my labor of love for the past month, so I’d like to talk a little bit about its genesis, process and eventual fruition." Politics aside, a nice post about redesigning an online news site.

"Yesterday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) launched the Media Fairness Caucus, made up of about a dozen House Republicans, aiming “to fight liberal media bias.” The group will “point out unfair stories, meet with members of the media, and write op-eds and letters to the editor to highlight media bias,” Newsmax reported. Appearing on Fox News today, Smith declared that “liberal media bias” is a bigger threat to the United States than the recession or terrorism." – proving that one doesn't have to live in reality to get elected to Congress.

Another search engine.

"Listening to news executives talk about micropayments, Kindles, public subsidies, micropayments, collusion, blocking Google and anything else that might save their businesses, it occurs to me that they may have missed some developments in, ah, well, the past ten years. For those and anyone else who is interested, I offer the following primer on how things have changed." – via Jay Rosen on Twitter, Paul Bradshaw with the 20,000 foot view.

"In a 31-page white paper prepared for last week's newspaper executive's summit in Chicago, API concludes, "newspapers can make the leap from an advertising-centered to an audience-centered enterprise" and should get on with it immediately."

Yesterday, Rosen shared some ideas about teaching blogging on Poynter. You can view the chat archive at this link. some good stuff there.

Not surprising to me.