Scripps is shuttering the afternoon Albuquerque Tribune, and unlike its previous closure of the Cincinnati Post there seems to be no plan to continue with a Web operation. Up in Wisconsin, the afternoon Capital Times is killing its daily edition and will continue to publish on the Web, as well as producing a couple of free entertainment products each week.

The idea of having editors seems to be under some pressure this week. As a former copy editor and a subway buff, I appreciated the New York Times' piece on the proper use of the semicolon in the context of public transportation. I like the semicolon too much and have to remind myself that the trouble with the period is that we often don't get to it quickly enough.

Don't miss the correction at the bottom.

He was writing about the Clinton campaign, but as a strategist I particularly appreciate this line from Neil McIntosh, which seems like one of those universal truths:

"Sometimes, it’s true, strategists can be so busy staring at the blue sky in the distance they lose sight of the shit-filled ditch just ahead."

Now that Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo political blog has won a George Polk Award for legal reporting, can we please officially bury the tired old nonsense about blogging not being real journalism?

So, who in the 20th Century would ever have imagined that Fidel Castro would step down from the Cuban presidency with a statement first published on the World Wide Web?

I generally don't regard Alexa to be a reliable source of traffic data for local websites due to sampling methodology and size issues, but when applied to the presidential race, it may provide a fairly accurate indication of enthusiasm about the candidates. Here's a snapshot of the last month's traffic for the Obama, Clinton and McCain campaign websites. It certainly doesn't look good for Clinton.

Martin Stabe recaps the ongoing debate about whether simple tools like Dreamweaver -- which no professional journalist is likely to ever use -- have a role in journalism education.