Wow, I’ve found a lot of really fascinating stuff online today! Check it out-

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the law in the state against gay marriage was unconstitutional. Whatever your feeling on the subject is, that’s a bit of a big deal. Here’s an article looking at how this ruling changes the national landscape on this issue. Also, the Wall Street Journal Law blog looks at the decision.

The New York Times reports on a video of a Pakistani girl being publicly flogged by a Taliban commander that has brought out human rights protests and cries of alarm over the increasing power the militant group has in the region.

A really interesting blog post looking at whether reporters should be allowed to comment on their own articles in response to readers, and if so, how. This is most definitely a subject that’s come up in questions in my own work before (not with me really, but with others I’ve observed), and though my personal opinion still stands that a reporter’s comments on an online story are more destructive than helpful, I can appreciate the different opinion and suggested guidelines. What do you think?

The Guardian’s John McHugh talks a bit about his use of multimedia in his recent online project and diary on the situation in Afghanistan.

Washington DC political satire blog Wonkette takes a sharp look at comics about the auto industry- very funny and interesting.

A list of top ten business mistakes newspapers must avoid as they try to make the move to online-only, brought to my attention by the lovely Whitney Rhodes, the assistant new media editor at the Courier-Post. Whitney actually added a few of her own tips in her blog post on the subject- the one I like the best is, “The time for mourning the newspaper is over.” Tough truth, but good advice.

Politico’s article on the New York Times executive editor’s prediction that the newspaper will survive, using Darfur as a comparision. Interesting….

According to the Pew Research Center, 11 percent of online Americans now use Twitter, including 19 percent of American users ages 18 to 24.

A professor who believes he was fired from his job for writing an incendiary essay about the victims of 9/11 won his wrongful termination case, but was only awarded $1 in damages. The original Wall Street Journal Law blog post on the case provides more light on what was actually said.