Huffington Post gets Goodman

Peter Goodman, national economics correspondent for the New York Times, has decided to leave the paper to become business and technology editor at the Huffington Post. Goodman told Howard Kurtz that he wanted the freedom to advocate solutions to the nation's economic woes rather than simply report on them. His reporting, by the way, has been consistently excellent throughout the Great Recession and gives me a reason to actually read the website.

In from the cold

Blogger and Los Angeles Times pressman Ed Padgett says his suspension at the paper will be lifted at 4 p.m. today and that he will meet with management tomorrow to "discuss or clarify what content can be published online."

Padgett was suspended Tuesday over posts he made after a production problem that led to delays in the delivery of Friday's newspaper.

Tying the Intertubes

The Thai government has turned to online censorship in its effort to quell an anti-government uprising. Todd Ruiz at Reporter in Exile has the scoop - here's an excerpt:

Blocking URLs to prevent the flow of information is like trying to dam a river with your hands. You just get wet and look stupid. Especially since any of the thousands of proxy servers so easily circumvents your finest efforts.

That hasn't stopped the censorship-loving Thai government, which steers all TCP/UDP port 80 traffic through its Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, from dropping the ban hammer on thousands of websites, YouTube videos and news sites since the red crisis began mid-March.

All in the name of protecting those delicate, vulnerable Thai minds from the weighty burden of critical thought.

The complete post is here.