Neil McIntosh loves his little new Eee: "Don’t you just love the sound of.. er… paradigms being shifted in the morning?"

I've written previously about the significance of disruptive, low-end products in general, and Linux for consumers in particular. And I've noted that my kids, my mother, and my mother-in-law are all running Linux.

From Pew Research: "The financial crisis facing news organizations is so grave that it is now overshadowing concerns about the quality of news coverage, the flagging credibility of the news media, and other problems that have been very much on the minds of journalists over the past decade."

Laid-off sports columnist Paul Oberjuerge, cut loose from the San Berdardino Sun, has had some time to mull it over and has produced a beautifully written and spot-on accurate list of "Tips on Keeping Your Print Journalism Job." It's so well done that I read it aloud to my (non-journalist) wife.

I won't spoil the experience by listing the 10 bullet points, but note that "embrace the Web" is Number One.

We're restarting our search at Morris DigitalWorks for a director of audience growth. This is a senior management position with significant responsibility. It involves working with all levels of leadership at the 13 daily Morris Publishing Group newspapers from Florida to Alaska, and some travel is required.

Irony is Tucker Carlson lecturing a Scotsman reporter about journalistic standards.

Fans of the "wisdom of the crowd" concept should enjoy the following things I learned by reading the comments below the New York Times' coverage of this morning's mini-blast at the Times Square military recruiting hut:

Earlier today I and a lot of other folks got an email from Vikki Porter, who's leading a Knight Digital Media Center conference for editorial page editors. "We are urging them to build credibility with their users by having the courage to send users elsewhere for info when they can't meet the need. As expected they are appalled. They want hard data to take home to convince their legacy managers this is a good idea."