Items of Interest

~ Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake has an excellent post up about the power of the blogs versus the power of traditional media in light of all the recent budget cutting at newspapers and other media organizations.

~ DNI director Mike McConnell implies that Lashkar-e-Taiba is responsible for the attack in Mumbai late Tuesday. He didn't directly name the group but "speaking at Harvard University, the top US intelligence official left little doubt that he believed the group was responsible for the bloody attacks."

"The same group that we believe is responsible for Mumbai had a similar attack in 2006 on a train and killed a similar number of people," said McConnell. "Go back to 2001 and it was an attack on the parliament," he added.

~ Keeping track of all the different ways to connect with a person on the internet or via the phone, etc. has just gotten a new technology twist. It's called .TEL.

~ College tuition soon to be out of reach for most students.

The rising cost of college -- even before the recession -- threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Over all, the report found, published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, adjusted for inflation, while median family income rose 147 percent.

No big surprise there for our household with two 2008 graduates. The price is appalling and I don't think that the professors and the administrators realize just how good they have it.

~ NYT's dot earth blog has a good post on "CO2's Long Goodbye".