links for 2006-11-03

Some things, our columnist David Banks reserves for his own blog. And then, suddenly, months later, they become relevant again.

“Al-Jazeera will not be broadcast in Australia, despite the imminent launch of an Asia-Pacific bureau and an English-language channel.”

[converted to Unicode] “In the era of convergence, the notion that newspapers would be “scooping themselvesâ€� by posting exclusives first is passé. But are there exceptions to this rule?”