Editors Weblog cites a study from the Newspaper Audience Databank that shows baby boomers in Canada still consume print (56% weekdays, 78% weekly cume): "Their readership habits have changed little over the past 20 years."

As the bloodbath continues at America's big newspapers, name-brand columnists, movie and music reviewers are at the head of the line of those being thrown overboard. At my alma mater in the north, the Star Tribune, 25 percent of the news department and 40 percent of the editorial page are getting the axe. Many old friends are on that list.

I've long argued that gatekeeping is dead and that our new role is more akin to that of a guide, pointing out both truth and falsehood in a rich and open bazaar of information.

Getting a Knight award is cool. Having a Knight award positioned as creating little clones of yourself is doubly cool. So double congratulations are in order for Adrian Holovaty, who has received a $1.1 million Knight grant to extend/polish up/liberate his data-mashup software (as seen at ChicagoCrime.org ).

In a New York Times op-ed piece that is so bizarre that it almost seems a Swiftian modest proposal, author Mark Helprin argues for permanent copyright, suggesting that a creative work should forever belong to heirs and not to the culture from which it was born.

I haven't posted much lately due to a heavy work/travel schedule ending in several days of vacation in Istanbul. At the moment I'm burning some time in an expat bar near the Sultan Ahmet mosque. My plane leaves at 5 a.m., so I'm closing down the bars and not bothering with a hotel tonight.

In the great big gap between the laptop computer and the smart phone, there's a device that just never seems to quite take off: the tablet.