On SOBIG and RSS

Steve Outing's latest Stop the Presses: "end of email" (at least, as a publishing tool), so put your faith in RSS.
(From Editor & Publisher)

BBC News Style Book

The BBC have a very simple, new style guide here. It's an excellent introduction to good style in reporting and is full of entertaining examples of the opposite. Nice.
(From BBC News)

Times Online hits profitability

Following its introduction of paid subscriptions for overseas readers, The Times Online has announced that it has gone into profit for the first time.
(From New Media Zero)

Blatner on InDesign 2 vs XPress 6

"... To be sure, many features in XPress still run faster than InDesign on any given computer -- for instance, navigating from page to page or importing MS Word documents. However, some XPress features now run significantly more slowly than InDesign, such as exporting PDF files and formatting tables ... In general, you'll be more efficient in InDesign when creating design- and type-rich documents and more efficient in XPress when you need to knock out basic documents with a lot of pages..."
(From Creative Pro)