USATODAY.com - While the Internet is certainly affecting how the mainstream media works, there's another area that the anyone's-a-publisher paradigm is affecting: the world of scientific journals. The place I used to work, the American Chemical Society, just laid off a bunch of people who put its journals together, outsourcing the operation to the company that prints them.

AP - The number of newly laid off Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits fell by a larger-than-expected amount last week in a signal that the job market remains healthy.

AP - Emboldened a day after a successful jailbreak, insurgents laid siege to another prison Wednesday. This time, U.S. troops and a special Iraqi unit thwarted the pre-dawn attack south of Baghdad, overwhelming the gunmen and capturing 50 of them, police said.

Reuters - The Walt Disney Co. said on Tuesday that about 30 of the 168 employees of Circle 7, the animation unit working on the animated sequel "Toy Story 3," have been laid off, and others have been reassigned to other animated features.

NewsFactor - Novell has laid out a fresh vision for its future, highlighting several new products such as its just-released SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 operating system, and also being frank about the work left to be done.