“We’re looking for people who want to keep a blog or online diary for the News & Star website”…

The Newspaper Division of Gannett Co. announced that Barbara A. Henry has been named senior group president of the newly-formed Interstate Newspaper Group.

Rich Skrenta reports that 75% of his Topix.net has been sold to three newspaper groups. Topix has been a hot property for some time, and news of the deal whilst surprising, makes an awful lot of sense, particulary from the point of view of a very scared newspaper industry…

The Observer newspaper in the UK will launch a blog this coming Sunday. Journalist, writer and …

The NY Times reports that Primedia Inc has put About.com up for sale and final bids for the web site are due on Tuesday.

A stealth project called Pegasus News plans to launch a beta test in Dallas in late 2005 to distribute local news content and advertising via the web, e-newsletters, RSS feeds, a daily print edition, SMS messaging and other mediums, according to an inside source who contacted me.

What if writing and delivering software were like publishing a newspaper?

After more than fifty years of practicing software development, the experts of our trade are now agreed: we are still useless at it.