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One old-media journalist thinks it's time to unleash a brigade of Louis Vuitton-bearing lawyers on Google to stop them from stealing from newspapers.

Lose your job?  Well, you didn’t lose your knowledge base - why not give your old employer a run for its money?  That’s what eight former reporters at the Santa Barbara News-Press did when they were fired, and they named the result the Santa Barbara Newsroom.

At the Webcast from the Computer History Museum with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, reporters waited anxiously for the bang. Alas, it ends not with a bang, but a whimper, albeit a big whimper.

Shh! Don't tell Elinor Mills over at CNet about this, she'll just cause more trouble. ZabaSearch, a search engine geared toward finding personal information on anybody, is soon to offer a blogging feature that will no doubt produce more gossip than a quilting bee.

Time magazine stepped into today and said they'd hand over their notes regarding a Bush administration leak that compromised the identity of a CIA operative. Two reporters, one for Time and the other for the New York Times (NYT) wouldn't reveal their sources and had been told by a district court judge to hand them over or head for the hoosegow. He gave them one week.

Time magazine complied with a court order to turn over information regarding a leak in the White House that exposed the undercover identity of a CIA operative. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan told the magazine and two reporters yesterday they had one week to comply or be held in contempt of court and the reporters would go to jail.

Today during Search Engine Strategies I talked about how many bloggers are becoming reporter's assistants.

You know that getting publicity is vital to the health of your business. You probably also know that e-mail is the way most publicity seekers get in touch with reporters to score that precious coverage. Here's what you don't know: The vast majority of e-mails sent to journalists never get read.