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• The Seattle Times cuts 10% of workforce

• US Newspaper circulation down 4.7%

• Two Connecticut papers to be shut without a new owner

• Tribune Co. reports $124 million loss for 3rd quarter

• NY Times in trouble: advertising down 16%, may struggle to service debt

• New York Sun to close

• The perfect storm: Newspapers take a huge hit, print advertising dying

Those are just the dreary headlines that are out the past few days. I think new media is slowly taking over. Blogging to replace newspapers? It's not as absurd as it sounds because there are already many blogs and new media on the web that are taking over the role of informing the public of news and events.

Sad if you are a full time reporter affected by this but I'm sure people who are in the "new media" saw this coming much earlier. I for one have stopped buying newspapers a long time ago. I only get TheStar occasionally (like once a month) or The Sun because it's free from some 7-11 outlets.

After so much hard work I put into the latest chess website I was involved in, I got rewarded with a PR 4.

My visits to Vietnam and Philippines were not in vain. Each one of the visit was for reporting on the chess tournament that was being held in both the countries. Both were high profile chess tournament so the eyes of the world (chess enthusiasts anyway) was on my website.

ChessASIA.net is now PR 4!! I'm just documenting it here in this relatively unknown blog for my own reference :)

Another chess related website, DATMO.net, for the Malaysian Open 2008 chess championship also surprisingly reached PR 3.