Another good column by Mark Glaser, this time looking at the way journalists use web searches and email interviews.

It's an issue that's fundamental to the changes in journalistic practice that are inevitably happening because of the confluence within the industry of new technology and business decisions which mean writers and editors with less time.

Having said that, the folks Glaser speaks to for the piece seem to come down - as I do - on the side that while the technology certainly makes lazy story construction more possible; the advantages of having access to the sort of source information the web can provide more than outweigh the potential risks.

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Really sorry to hear about Scott Shuger. I never met him, but from what I understand he was a good guy. He was undeniably one of the first to understand how the notion of convergence and the 24-hour audience would affect the mainstream press.

Today's Papers was a stroke of genius, and went a long way towards helping establish Slate as the bridge between the deadtree world and the exclusively online arena.

In magazine terms, TP was that crucial, timely piece of content that connected an otherwise timeless bag of elegant prose to the real world.

He'll be missed.

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