KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES. Many of you might've noticed that today's New York Times includes an article about Sony's split with Nellie McKay. The dispute (previously covered here) has led to her CD Pretty Little Head not being released today as scheduled. In the Times article, McKay offers an interesting, sometimes self-critical, assessment of the situation, but so far there's no word as to whether she will have the word "slave" written on herself à la Prince (who recently leapfrogged from Sony to Universal). Even though McKay still has a Sony website, her other website seems to be strangely underutilized considering the current circumstances.

Also in the Times is a substantial story about the Wikipedia vs. Britannica standoff (previously covered here). It's got an amusing anecdote about Wikipedia coverage of the chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who at one point was described as "the oldest of five hundred million children." To see the inspiration for the Wikipedia vs. Britannica coverage, check out Nature.