Jeff Jarvis is back, and observes that the Newark Star-Ledger put out an edition without any AP content. Tim McGuire writes that Politico's move to syndicate not only content, but also advertising, "could create a marketplace for ad hoc solutions to the newspaper’s need for supplemental material."

Last month I described how we're working to build a next-generation news website management system, based on the Drupal platform. Much of that system has been built out and configured on a development server at work, but there's quite a bit of work remaining.

A friend of mine expressed great frustration at not being able to post a comment on my blog the other day. Because of blog spammers, I have grown progressively less comment-friendly, requiring CAPTCHA tests and moderating every post.

I got an email yesterday from a woman -- I think she's an East Coast real estate agent -- who's just furious at the Associated Press for daring to fact-check some speakers at the Republican convention in St. Paul. "It makes me so mad to see the media pick apart the candidates -- all for their own selfish purpose," she wrote. "I am an independent voter and have not yet decided who will win my vote, and articles like this infuriate me!"

No one is better than Jon Stewart when it comes to exposing hypocrisy through the magic of simple juxtaposition. If you've been too busy to catch his show lately, watch this video:

I blew a good half an hour yesterday utterly fascinated by this:

Codrie, La., after Hurricane Gustav

It's "just" a 360-degree picture, something that's been around on a lot of news sites since the early days of iPix and Quicktime VR.

But it's huge.

And I tell you what, on a 20-inch Apple Cinema monitor, you feel like you're going to get dunked. The detail is just dazzling. Click and spin and look around.