Could the vaunted Red Sox leave their hallowed radio home of WEEI? Seems like it's definitely a possibility - though not at all a guarantee - according to the Boston Globe's Sasha Talcott.

At first this might not seem like a big issue, but after seeing New York's Knicks and Rangers move from their home on 660AM WFAN over to 1050AM WEPN (ESPN Radio), I've got to say it should be a concern. For one thing, WFAN is a clear channel broadcast, and I've heard it as far away as the Carolinas - 1050 barely makes it into the central part of New Jersey, just 30-40 miles away. While ESPN Radio will surely never admit that this has hurt the teams' listenership, I've got to say that purely based on reach, it has to have done so. Hopefully, Boston won't have the same issue.

Well, big step for me tonight - subscribed to the online version of the Wall Street Journal. Been finding the content - beyond the free stuff - really helpful of late. So while linking to it isn't going to be helpful for everyone, I'll probably be doing it here and there when it's necessary. You can all find a print edition, right? =)

This morning, Dan Gillmor published an open letter to the community of Bayosphere users, along with the rest of us who are interested (and part of) the citizen journalism community. It's a must-read, IMHO, and can shed some light on the ins and outs of putting together a successful community of newsgatherers, interested readers, and others.

Jeff Jarvis has a blog post up about changes to the newspaper, and brings up the topic of coupons disappearing from the papers, and how that affected a pub he worked at a few years back. I'm not going to delve too much into the argument, but I will say, flat out, that I purchase the Sunday paper where I live *purely* for the coupons for the grocery store. That's not to say that I don't read any of the paper (the comics, especially), because I get most of the stories online - but pretty much I'm only buying the paper for saving money at the grocery store. Should we take a survey on this? I bet we'd get a lot more than just me and the one commenter on Jarvis' site who does the same with a Philadelphia newspaper.

So if the paper decided to ditch the coupons - or my carrier decided s/he wanted all of them for her/himself, I'd ditch the paper. Probably along with a few other people. In effect, I'm buying advertisements.

In Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune, staff writer Frank Green shares the story of Finest City Broadcasting and its president, Mike Glickenhaus, and how this independent (read: not CBS Radio or Clear Channel) network of stations has grown to become a player in that portion of the country.

Well, one of the things I'm going to have to admit comes with getting a bit of success out of blogging (and having a lot of projects to work on) is that you're pulled all over the place, but it's important not to alienate what really got you where you are - which for me, is here at TMD. So outside of really making a point to be on top of things for you, the readers, I'm going to also put together a recap of stuff I've posted elsewhere, perhaps once a week, just so you can see what else I'm up to, if that's of interest to you. That's the beauty of the whole thing, you can just skip those posts in your RSS reader or whatever, and move on. But in any case, it's something I'm working on.

Thanks for your continued support. I really appreciate it. And thanks to David, for giving me an IM-slap.

Well, at least I'm not the only one who thought it was amusing that Google's Gmail change to add a "delete" button to the menu was a little bit late. Frankly, I'm so used to using the drop down to delete now after so long that it's screwing up my speed of use.

My suggestion? Put it back in the dropdown, too - shouldn't hurt anything.

ESPN.com has changed its look, in case you didn't notice. David Singer noticed, and wrote up a pretty solid view of the changes - which he likes for the most part - but that doesn't mean he thinks the site is necessarily better. I'm definitely with him on the auto-playing video ads. As great as video ads are, and the fact that they get such "rave" reviews are possibly because of stats like what the "open rate" is for video ads that show up automatically and play.

As for the clutter, I'm definitely in agreement on that. The page is just "spread out" a little bit differently, and it definitely does the job. What do you think?

Just wanted to congratulate Susan Mernit on her new gig at Yahoo!, where she'll be working on the company's Personals brand. Excellent stuff, looking forward to seeing what Yahoo! Personals does in the near term, Susan!

As of Wednesday, January 18, readers of the Chicago Tribune will no longer see stock tables in the pages of the newspaper, Bloomberg News reports this afternoon.

As you would probably guess, the Internet has a lot to do with this. Expect this to be one of the first dominos of a few to do the same.

If this isn't the funniest (and yet strangely serious) thing I've read all year, then nothing is. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh writes this morning that according to a piece of a new law that President Bush signed last week, you cannot while away hours on the Internet "posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity."

That's right - no more annoying people - anonymously, at least. So the next time you begin getting IMs from someone whose screenname you don't recognize, make sure you cite the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. And yes, that's where it's buried. No wonder government frustrates the average person.

CNNMoney's Paul La Monica writes Friday about how the splitting of Viacom into two different entities has been viewed pretty positively by the Street and business-thinkers, and what that means for the future. One of the theories included in the article is that the big company mentality might hinder the ability for some of the smaller pieces to function as well as they previously did - even though there might be financial savings elsewhere within the blending of the companies.

In what will definitely go down as a huge media blunder for the year, the coverage of last night's "rescue" of 12 miners from a West Virginia coal mine is "tragically on display," News.com's Scott Ard informs - and will be forever, most likely. In case you haven't heard about this, there were reports on Wednesday morning that 12 miners that were trapped in a mine were found alive - information that was passed on to the families of the miners, as well as the news media. Unfortunately, the timing of the information coincided somewhat with the printing times for many newspapers, and many front pages this morning heralded the rescue of these individuals in almost-but-not-quite war font. Unfortunately, the (mis)information about the rescue was rescinded just hours later, leaving the families in disarray when it turned out that only one man survived, and egg on the face of big media. While Ard is right to point out that sites like that of NYTimes.com should have removed the wrong story from its front page, it is important to note that these stories shouldn't be deleted from sites as a whole. If not only for the many hyperlinks they surely attracted when the news was fresh, but to prove a point.

In my office cafeteria today, I saw the cover of USA Today carrying a similar headline, and it felt peculiar to look at. If anything, it's a reminder about how delicate the news business is and how the 24-hour news cycle can create a situation like this. It's easy for a broadcast or even online news site to "retract" its story and get the correct facts out there, but a newspaper takes 24 hours before someone sees the "fix" - that's tough.

This leads me back to something that "Imus in the Morning" producer Bernard McGuirk said on this morning's show about the situation - that the "silver lining" in this whole story is that the media looks bad for running with unconfirmed facts, and that it basically served them right. While I don't necessarily agree with that statement, because "checking your facts" could have been any reporter getting two individuals to confirm the story here, I can see where people might think that way. But here, even the government believed that these people had been saved.

Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal ran a story by Brian Steinberg and Joe Hagan about the announcement that Richard Zannino, Dow Jones' CFO, would take the reins as CEO as of February 1. But, as you'll probably notice, what might be the most important part of the story is in the first sentence - Zannino is not a journalist, and has a straight-up business background. The Motley Fool's Tim Beyers loves the move, specifically in how Zannino's finance experience could prove crucial for the company's prosperity going forward.

While shareholders will probably enjoy this transition, will the same be said for those who enjoy Dow Jones' news operations?

The Boston Globe's Keith Reed writes about this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where all kinds of "on demand" features and products will be unleashed on the media, only to land in our living rooms, on our cellphones, and on our computers in the next few months.

Fast Company wants to know if you're buying your music on MP3s or CDs these days. Go over and vote!

The AP's Dave Carpenter details the departure of the Chicago Sun-Times' Red Streak tabloid paper from the market a little over a week ago not as the demise of this style of publication, but a sign of the future. Both publishers and advertisers see the tabloid papers as a way to reach younger readers, and even if this style of paper isn't what ultimately stays around, it shows that the publishers are dedicated to finding a way to reach the market.