THE NEWS OF THE WORLD'S LAST ACT, CTD: Gordon Brown has now decided to jump in and give his (no doubt inane) opinion on the matter, condemning the journalists and telling the Guardian how he was 'genuinely shocked' by the news.

WORKING OURSELVES TO DEATH: Phil Bowermaster thinks we might be.

BLOGGING'S DEAD, AGAIN: Jonathan Raunch has a few problems with the medium. " There are a few great bloggers out there. Andrew Sullivan is one of them. But they're depressingly rare.  If some strange magnetic pulse wiped out every blog post written since the format began, hardly anything memorable or important would be lost; and, after 15 years or whatever, it's too late to hope for maturation. The medium is the problem. The Web is great for shopping and research, but intrinsically lousy for serious reading and writing. Over the past decade and more, the most striking fact about the blogosphere is how little it has produced of distinction or durability." Opinion delivered, perhaps somewhat ironically, via blog.