■   Interestingly enough, that last link shows in a small way what the journalism business is dealing with. Being interested in German news, I read Spiegel fairly often, which is how I came across the story. Just a little while after I read it, a friend sent me this: basically the same story from the BBC. So, any newspaper wire editor looking to toss an interesting foreign story in Thursday’s paper now has to deal with the fact that the type of people who tend to be interested in the news might have already seen the story not just once, but twice.  [#]