City Room: The Morning Buzz
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Also in the Morning Buzz: Gov. Eliot Spitzer's second State of the State address, the capture of the second of two New Jersey jail escapees and a City Council vote requiring stores to provide for the recycling of plastic bags.
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Blog: How is a city of professional line-standers and BlackBerry addicts responding to the much-hyped new gadget?
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Views you can use for clues to tomorrow's news.
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Community weeklies, as diverse as the borough itself, are growing â and attracting the attention of the big dailies.
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My morning ritual usually includes a quick browse over the most recent Yahoo! News headlines. Even before my journalism core teachers began hounding me to read, listen to, watch, absorb
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After spending a day with the old keyword page, and getting bored with it, I came up with a new way to look at news, something I've not tried before, that might be fun and/or useful http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html  Since it's likely to change again soon, here's a screen shot. How it works. Every hour, as usual, it does the nytimesriver scan. Every story is linked to in the database undern all the keywords it references. Then the report, in HTML, is prepared, with the keywords in the left column, and links to all the stories in the right colum. The list is sorted by number of references, the keywords with the most references appear at the top of the list.  So today, baseball is the top item, with 15 references. The teams, the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies, rank high. For some reason (heh) the Boston Red Sox don't appear, even though they're still in it, and the Yankees, even though they've been eliminated (yay!) are near the top at position 10.  It's another leaderboard! (Oh shit.) The stories age, and are removed after 24 hours. After all this is news, not olds.  If you have comments, post them under the screen shot, linked above. PS: Note that since the list just started up today, the initial stories, even though some are already 24 hours old, will remain in the queue until tomorrow morning at this time. So the list will be artificially fat today, it'll thin down tomorrow.
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On Monday, Ask.com is introducing AskCity, a service that integrates maps with information about local businesses, restaurants, listings and reviews.
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It was hard to find anything amiss or out of place. That's the way things generally go on media day. There are smiles all around. Optimism oozes. It's that way from Atlanta to Seattle and everywhere in between.
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Bouncy Castle Hamlet, Macbeth with a  Sinatra soundtrack, Shakespeare for Breakfast with free coffee  and croissants.
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By Sean Boone, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Jun. 16--Five a.m. comes pretty abruptly on a weekend morning; at least for me anyway.
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By Chrissy Vick, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep.
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Friday's news cycle is dominated by two major events: depending on which side of the Atlantic you found yourself, the story is either lighthearted or chilling. The Applie iPhone's debut in New York City vies with a bombscare in London.
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NEW YORK, Aug 29  - Morning grogginess may be a  thing of the past thanks to bio-alarm clocks designed to wake  sleepers at the perfect time.
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By Chloe Morrison, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 18--LAFAYETTE, Ga.
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Ever wonder if the sound of five boroughs gulping simultaneously could be heard around New England? Monday would have been the night to fling open the windows and find out.
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Also in the Morning Buzz: New Jersey's overhaul of state school aid, fear of bridges and how Senator Obama's surge affects a possible White House candidacy by Mayor Bloomberg.
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Feeling much better today. Health is beginning to return. I owe it all to patience, lots of sleeping, drinking fluids, and not trying to be healthy before I actually am. Today I'm going to take a 20 minute easy walk in the sun.  Watching General Petreus testify today. The Dems are very polite. Sorry I still think we should get the hell out of Iraq. I don't think any more Americans should die there.  Elizabeth Dole is speaking now.