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Sydney - The near decade or so of angst and wailings which has followed the progressive obliteration of old news media with the new media continues to whimper.

A Wall Street Journal reporter, who had an extramarital affair with Obama’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq, has resigned after e-mails discussing "blue balls", "hooking up" for the first time, and giving access to information leaked online.

A former head of Transportation Security Administration says air travel is not safer with oppressive airport security checks and in-flight restrictions. He urges politicians to embrace risk and relax some of the restrictions.

The book has only been out for a couple days and already it's a highly debated subject. The memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom," by Yale University professor Amy Chua, breaks down the differences between “Chinese” parenting and Western parenting.

The Wall Street Journal investigated the privacy of Facebook users, finding that popular applications, such as FarmVille, send a user's personal information to marketing companies in a violation of Facebook privacy rules.

An article in the UK-based Guardian has been reprinted internationally, starting the rumour that Greece is actually selling some of its islands, or is offering them for long-term leases by rich individuals. Yesterday, rectification followed.

The question has been raised on Digital Journal before whether it is right or wrong to charge for online news media. More and more news-media sources are charging for their content, which raises lots of questions.

Honolulu - eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar starting up an online news company in Hawaii to provide news for paying customers. But will it work, and what do locals think?

Sarah Palin, now part of the Fox team of pundits, has advised that President Obama should fire Rahm Emanuel. She was offended and said others would be over Emanuel's remarks about the intellectually disabled.

Rupert Murdoch is backing up his new media concepts with logic, as well as the muscle of News Corp. He’s written a piece in the Wall Street Journal expressing his views quite unambiguously, and whether you agree or not, it’s required reading.