Hot tips:
Cyberjournalist Jonathan Dube, in his Poynter column, has a guide to RSS for journalists. It's the best quick guide to this topic I've seen, and should convince more journalists to get on the RSS train. Even better, he's set up a Cyberjournalist Bloglines feed with links to news on journalism, current events, tracking rumors, hot topics, hot documents, and word of the day. Great stuff.

I linked to the PI News blog a couple months ago, but am now finding the blog to be an essential tool for helping ferret out news and information about public records and investigation. The blog is by long-time California PI Tamara Thompson, and should be an essential read for investigative journalists and those interested in open records. She even recently linked a site on folk medicines, for ...finding "out about the attributes of the various medicinal treatments your criminal defense clients were subject to as children". You never know.

And, in Blogger news, a new format for the comments on Blogger blogs. Previously you had to be registered with Blogger or comment anonymously. Now that's up to the creator, and comments can appear in a pop-up window.