Booxter looks like a nice application for managing your entire library.

A great article on the coverage of Gore in the last election and how its biased insistence on misquotes and trivial shortcomings may have cost him the election.

Quoted: Al Gore couldn't believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, <i>The New York Times, The Washington Post,</i> and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes ("I invented the Internet"), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration for <i>Love Story</i>), and strangely off-the-mark needling, while pundits such as Maureen Dowd appeared to be charmed by his rival, George W. Bush. For the first time, Gore and his family talk about the effect of the press attacks on his campaign&#8212;and about his future plans&#8212;to the author, who finds that many in the media are re-assessing their 2000 coverage.

Time.com has an exclusive and engaging profile of Rupert Murdoch.

Quoted: Why does he want the Wall Street Journal and what will he do if he gets it? Eric Pooley got the answers from Murdoch himself

A stunning and very worthy piece by Bill Moyers on media's failure to do it's job on the ramp up to war against Iraq. A very powerful piece if for no other reason to see the level to which Gearoge W. Bush's "press conferences" were scripted - down to the softball questions from reporters.

The Poynter Online folks have been doing some really fascinating work in tracking eye movements of news readers online vs. tabloids and broadsheets. If you follow the link, you should check out the video and the PDFs, both are useful.

Some of the key findings are:

- People actually read more complete articles online, meaning they read them all the way through.

- There are two types of readers: methodical and scanner.

- Alternative story forms seem to work better than consistent formatting. Adding visual display of information, FAQs, sidebars, helps retention.

- Online, people look at nav bars and teasers much more than in print. Print, big photos and headlines are the way to go.

- Action photos draw attention. Small mugshots do not.

Get the huge 160,000 word report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, "The State of the News Media 2007." Next year - bloggers.

Quoted: The State of the News Media 2005, An Annual Report on American Journalism - Presented by Journalism.org

This sounds like a simple piece of software that will allow you yo use your mac remote for much more than the apps built into front row.

Quoted: Sofa Control - Control your aps with your remote

I read Molly Ivins pretty frequently but I think today's post is among her best...

Quoted: But as we can all attest, if you ignore reality, sooner or later it will bite you in the ass. I suspect the "tough- minded" (they pride themselves on being tough-minded) members of the Bush administration think they are not ignoring reality, but just persuading other people to ignore it long enough to allow them to change it. This is not an original thought. Many of the great thumb-suckers of D.C. have come to the same conclusion and pondered deeply on the "fatal hubris" of this administration. Fatal jackasses are what we have.

I have a potential plan to make my life less cluttered. I blogged it. Check it out.