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PC World Magazine has listed its favorite blogs. Check to see if yours made it here.

Brian Stetler started his blog, TVNewser.com from his dormroom at Towson University, Maryland in 2004. Mediabistro, picked it up soon after and recently announced that Stetler had been hired away, by none other than the New York Times.

John Curley, deputy managing editor at the San Francisco Chronicle has taken a buyout (or whatever else you want to call it). He posted his farewell on his flickr page and it has drawn some great comments. Sure it is heartbreaking in the way that all newspaper layoffs are -- and it seems our hearts are breaking far too frequently these days.

Virus and security firm McAffee has released their findings on The Safety of Search Engines today, following up on last year's report. The study finds that overall, 4.0% of search results link to Web sites that can be categorized as "risky."

Ace pollster and data reporter Tom Hargrove's latest entry details how unpopular the 'No Child Left Behind' Act really is, especially with those who are familiar with it. It is not to be missed today, and the comments are well worth a read too.

My friend Sree posted a question to our linkedin network the other day about a story he’s researching on free e-mail sites. Yahoo has recently upped the storage on their free e-mail accounts to unlimited space. Google has been offering 2GB of storage to gmail users for a while now. Seems like the battle of Web 2.0 service giants over free e-mail is all about size, but what does it mean for online businesses and users like us? It seemed like good blog fodder, so I grabbed my answer after posting it to share here.

So, I work for a newspaper company that is also a network television company and an internet company... or is it a cable company that also owns newspapers... or is a floor wax and a dessert topping? Well, that's neither here nor there. In my spare time, I'm also big into environmental issues, and started a growing online community called mygreenspace.net. Anyhoo, enough about me...

April 18th is National Columnists Day. The date is chosen because it is the day that famed Scripps' war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by sniper in the Pacific.

Once protesting the establishment, the Baby Boom generation now holds reigns of power in the United States. ScrippsNews has a great exclusive on this very interesting story follows our earlier special report that showed the generation is also living fast and dying young.

ScrippsNews has gathered some great resources for the midterm election. Be sure to check back regularly for the inside scoop, analysis and commentary from our staff as well as members of the online community.