Those decreases combined with EP's gains means that the digital operations brought in slightly half as much in 2Q05 as print, a significant change from 2Q04 when print brought in more than 2.5x the amount of digital. The segment, which contributed more operating income than print in 2Q04, outearned print three times over in 2Q05: $29,385 to $7,224.

About a dozen newspapers have objected to use of toilet humor in Tuesday's and Wednesday's "Doonesbury" comic strip, and some either pulled or edited the strip.

Kansas City-based Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes the strip to around 1,400 newspapers, said it had received some complaints from editors about a reference to presidential aide Karl Rove.

The Bermudian Publishing Company also announced it was to make two staff redundant and cease publication of two of its titles, The Bermudian Market Digest, with immediate effect, and The Bermudian Business Directory, in 2006. Bermudian Business will continue to produce six editions a year.

In a statement yesterday, the company said it was making the changes "in order to remain viable for the future".

Other cost-cutting measures will involve the company's office relocating to a site outside Hamilton and its magazines being printed in the US, netting a cost saving of around 61 per cent compared with what it costs to print in Bermuda.

First, Hewlett Packard boots 14,500 people on Monday. Wednesday brought the news that Eastman Kodak will likely cut another 10,000, on top of the already-planned 12,000 to 15,000. Today, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the fine people who make Kleenex, announced they will be dropping 6,000 folks from their payrolls, while the rumors out of Detroit are that Ford Motor may cut 10,500 pencil pushers.

The number of jobs lost could extend beyond 20,000 positions, according to estimates reported on Thursday by analysts at research firm Moors & Cabot. Wall Street analysts have suggested HP should make between 5,000 and 25,000 job cuts and even separate its various product lines to keep competitive.

The archive's repository now has approximately one petabyte - roughly one million gigabytes - worth of historical Web site content, much of which would have been lost as Web site owners deleted, changed and otherwise updated their sites.

The suit contends, however, that representatives of Harding Earley should not have been able to view the old Healthcare Advocates Web pages - even though they now reside on the archive's servers - because the company, shortly after filing its suit against Health Advocate, had placed a text file on its own servers designed to tell the Wayback Machine to block public access to the historical versions of the site.

Under popular Web convention, such a file - known as robots.txt - dictates what parts of a site can be examined for indexing in search engines or storage in archives.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers calls on Google to cease unlicensed digitisation of copyright materials with immediate effect, and to enter into urgent discussions with representatives of the publishing industry in order to arrive at an appropriate licensing solution for 'Google Print for Libraries'. We cannot believe that a business which prides itself on its cooperation with publishers could seriously wish to build part of its business on a basis of copyright infringement.

Yet another prediction that the Web is usurping print was made earlier this week at MPA's second annual IMAG Magazine Leadership Conference in Atlanta. "I take the platforms that you use to reach your readers very seriously," said Jason Pontin to about 60 independent magazine professionals in attendance. Pontin, editor-in-chief of MIT's Technology Review, was referring to the rapid rise of digital media available to the end-user. He said the disappearance of print will come sooner than we think, thanks largely to "citizen journalism" and an increasingly fragmented digital media platform.

It's not just taking a break -- next week, it's getting a bullet in the head, which is to say, it's gonna go out with a bang. That's right, our long-running staff feature will be going on a permanent vacation real soon.

I've always found it flattering how much some people seem to like that feature, which was, above all, an outlet. It's the sort of outlet I've always personally needed while working here, because the standard types of content I help to produce don't give me the context to talk about some of the issues that really matter to me. Now the same itch can be scratched by blogging or whatever, though as some of you have observed, it's just not the same. At any rate, if you consider yourself a fan of GameSpotting, then thanks for your support, and rest assured we're putting the thing away because its time has come. In fact, we should have ended it sooner.

In the final bloodbath at Gruner + Jahr USA, 75 people were handed pink slips yesterday as the Bertelsmann subsidiary sounded its final retreat before handing the keys to its former American magazine empire to new owners.

Susan Ungaro, who was editor in chief of Family Circle for 11 years, was among the most prominent names to get the ax.