History of Blogging is our pseudo news aggregater. It’s an evolution of the Filter concept that I introduced to the blog a month ago. It’s where all the important news (some of which we weren’t able to cover here) ends up. Consider it your backstage pass to what’s happening on the web. Here are some highlights from this week.

iPod Saves Man’s Life

From the page: “Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq (Tikrit I believe) and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side.

The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hit in the left chest where his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor. Fortunately, Kevin suffered no wound.” (Image) (Source)

The rumor is that a technician at Apple heard about this story and is looking for a way to get this soldier a replacement unit.

Journalism 2025

From the page: “Let us be clear: We write as former journalists and now professors of mass communication and society. We believe deeply in the importance of news media in the American experiment in democracy. In fact, we believe that if journalism goes, democracy almost certainly goes with it. That’s why today we have grave concerns about the state of journalism â?” both in the United States generally and in the Northwest.” (Image) (Source)

This is an extremely interesting take on modern media. While there is something to be said about blogging undermining Journalism, at a stretch, it is also crucially important to recognize that journalism has done quite a good job in undermining its on credibility for some time now.

Library Starts Lending Out Kindles

From the page: “‘Kindle represents an advance,’ Lapsley said, ‘a paperback versus the dictionary of previous generations of readers.’ The November 26 issue of Newsweek, with Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos on the cover, caught the library attention. ‘This is something we either have to embrace, or it’s going to plow us under,’ Lapsley said. ‘I found it very intuitive to use.’ ” (Image) (Source)

Not a terrible idea at all. Considering that public libraries already have a serious problem with people permanently borrowing paperbacks, scaling this idea might be difficult unless they found a better way to keep theft under control.

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