europeforvisitors - 4:09 pm on Aug 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

As Weeks suggests, this sounds tricky in terms of copyright and "fair use" (and in any case, the "fair use" doctrine is neither clear-cut nor universally recognized).

I also share Marcia's reservations about the "useless swill that often masquerades as Web 2.0."

Google News is a handy way to search the day's news. I'd hate to see it become a way for Google to infringe on news' publishers intellectual-property rights while cluttering up the Google News interface with mindless user rants.