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Last Friday, 20 Mar 2026, this “Hack of the Day” was published by The Times of India. My agents generated it entirely automatically. Here’s how that happened. On 12 Feb 2026, I met Rohit Saran, Managing Editor at The Times of India. “Our biggest challenge is the starting challenge. What story to do?” he said. “We waste a lot of time and we starve stories because of this.” What if AI could help with that? We talked for nearly two hours - and left asking: “Should we do just a daily visual newspaper?” ...

The Newspaper Today is dead. Yet another blow to the pay-model. via Netahoy

Berkeley’s course on weblogging has some pretty good links.

This article mentions a Patrick Critton. Thanks to this innocuous reference, he ended up in jail.

People’s Daily from China. In English. I’ve found it quite a good source of news recently.

Staci Kramer interviewed the CEO of Turner Broadcasting (who, among other things, said stuff like not watching ads is theft). Staci traces how news of this spread through the Internet into sites like top 10 copyright crimes and “But Daddy I need to go”.

Thomas Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer for his commentary. Incidentally, his book site (Lexus and the Olive Tree) has some interesting audio clips.

Strategic competitor. A cool way of presenting news.

Grammer: the first casualty of war. Funny.

More weird news.

While hunting for some stuff on public relations on the Internet, I found 10 ways public relations specialists can use the Internet. Actually, the links are useful to anyone doing any news research. What’s Next Online, 12th July has a good writeup on how to research online. I did find some good Internet PR related links too on About.com, Connecting Online and Impulse Research.