One of the research papers presented at ISOJ by Hsiang Iris Chyi and Monica Chadha, University of Texas at Austin looked at how people were getting their news on new devices (paper in PDF). The researchers suggested the idea of newsfulnews as a way of measuring the likelihood of a multi-purpose device being used for news, based on the number who use a device for news compared to total number of

Lists are always popular so the Online Journalism Review has put together the top nine gifts for online journalists. Among the suggestions are a Belkin Tunetalk Stereo to record interviews on your iPod, a GPS unit from TomTom and, my favourite, a Vespa LX150 scooter. The number one gift, says OJR, the Apple iPhone. No doubt, the iPhone is an object of desire, but I am not sure how useful