Towards the bottom of this column by the Village Voice's Jarrett Murphy is some skinny on The Week, which sounds a lot to me like a magazine that does what blogs manage to do for readers - do all the filtering so that the blog's readers don't have to spend a ton of time doing so. My whole problem with publications that are less than daily (and even that's a drag, to be honest) is that they just seem like oddities to me. If I want to read about newsworthy events, I'm never going to rely on the print version of a publication for reporting - editorial, sure, but not reporting. It's "old" to me if I get it at the end of the week or whatever. As I'm sure this isn't the case for most Americans - yet - I can see how such a pub would be helpful. But I still don't get it.

Also, make sure and check out the story about Jason Leopold, a writer who was called out for using unconfirmed information related to the Enron scandal in a 2002 item at Salon.com - and how he's looking to unleash his whole life and times drama in a new (maybe) book.