NPR's Planet Money podcast and blog is just great, almost as good as Adam Davidson's and Alex Blumberg's shows explaining our mess on This American Life. They're now doing it daily. Highly recommended. (This American Life has another episode with more on the crisis but I can't listen to it [...]

Drop everything and go listen to the latest This American Life, a followup to its brilliant Giant Pool of Money show, which explains the bailout and the bigger mess we're in better than I've heard or read anywhere. Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson, and Ira Glass have done it again - [...]

No one's in charge. I didn't think that'd be worse than having the bozos we had in charge. But it is. You'd think the one thing our politicians would be competent at is politics. But they couldn't even count votes. We knew the White House was a vacuum. Congress is [...]

The old building block of journalism - the article - is proving to be inadequate in the current onslaught of news. I'll argue here that the new building block is the topic. The story was all we had before - it's what would fit onto a newspaper page or into [...]

As threatened, in my Guardian column this week, I try to catalogue the yes-but contrariness I hear about the internet's opportunities-and my responses: It never fails. I'll be talking with a group about the amazing opportunities of the internet age and inevitably someone will pipe up and say, "Yes, but [...]

When I decided to write my book, What Would Google Do?, I also decided that I did not want access to Google. I had a few reasons. First, I didn't want the company line but instead wanted to reverse-engineer Google's success from a distance, trying to figure out what made [...]

What are the objections that are constantly thrown in your face when you try to talk about new opportunities on the internet? I'm thinking of writing my Guardian column this week responding to some because I'm tired of having to answer the same complaints over and over. I sometimes despair [...]

If you're at Web2.0 Expo, please come to the session I'm running Friday at noon. It will be the first time I talk about my book, What Would Google Do?, in public. I'll run through the rules and lessons I intuited from Google and then I'll invite Steve Adler, editor [...]

A bunch of current and former reporters at the LA Times are suing the new boss, Sam Zell, "accusing him of recklessness in the takeover and management of the newspaper’s parent, the Tribune Company," says the NY Times. Journalists are such a whiny bunch, always complaining, constantly blaming someone else [...]

My Guardian column this week is a reprise of the discussion here about Google and its size in the market.[...]

Joe Nocera tells a cautionary tale in today's NY Times about Google's power in advertising. The man who runs Sourcetool.com complained to the Justice Department after Google found that his site didn't live up to its standards and raised the rates on him (Google's way of shooing away sites it [...]

I'm at the Online News Association hearing Tina Brown talk about her Daily Beast. She told me last night it will capture the daily zeitgeist with editors-more than 20 of them-rather than algorithms. She throws over her past in print. She says it is good to work online in a [...]

New Jersey's Star-Ledger today put out an entire edition without anything from the Associated Press within. The sharp-eyed reader will notice lots of local news by staff plus articles from other papers-Washington Post, LA Times, McClatchy, the Glouceseter County Times-and content from online services such as Sportsticker. It's one more [...]