There are two kinds of people in this world. There are those who implement Internet filtering. And there are those who hate Internet filtering. Sam Zell's memo putting an end to filtering at the Tribune Company is getting cheers from the victim side of that line. On2 recalls:

I learned of the British Airways crash-landing at Heathrow yesterday from Richard Sambrook's blog, which is in my RSS reader. He happened to be waiting in an airport lounge, shot a phonecam picture, and posted it by mobile phone. Naturally I checked the Guardian, which was a bit slow out of the gate, the BBC, which was quite on top of things, and the Times, which was somewhere in the middle.

It should raise some eyebrows that MySQL AB, the Swedish maker of a free database management system, has sold itself to Sun Microsystems at a price that Cnet estimates at (begin Dr. Evil impersonation) one... billion ... dollars. Hopefully it also will open some minds about alternative business models and "low end" innovation.

MySQL's revenue model is best described as "voluntary pay." Anybody can download and use the software at no charge. Businesses are encouraged to sign up for support services, but that's completely optional.

The Chicago Tribune is trimming its page width again: another inch gone, some more dollars saved in newsprint costs, another disguised ad rate hike.

The progressive narrowing of the web width seems symbolic of the trap that snares large newspapers. Unable to make the bold and sweeping changes that might reverse their sagging fortunes, they tinker with the format, making small and insufficient alterations.