Non-paying registrations, of course, have tripled since the switch, from almost 150,000 to 500,000 at present – so FT.com isn’t converting many of these to paying subs but is trying to monetise them through other means, like direct marketing…

How dumb? That dumb.

The southwest capital court issued an order relating to the sentencing of three journalists for publishing articles for some of Arab writers such as Mohammed Hassannein Haikal, and Mr. Abdulbari Atwan.

Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions…

After he hung up the phone, it occurred to me that I had just been handed, by Mr. Jobs himself, the very information he was refusing to share with the shareholders who have entrusted him with their money.

R.I.P. “No charges will be brought against U.S. troops believed to have shot dead ITN journalist Terry Lloyd in Iraq…”

Study of a visual medium notes: “Visual images and other more subjective cues are not assessed.” LA Times writer concludes: “But the tracking applies a measure of analytical rigor to a field rife with seat-of-the-pants fulminations.”