Might want to throw your ol' newspaper pals a lifeline. The LinkedIn Blog adapted the annual “Economic Report of the President” into a map showing the fastest growing and fastest shrinking industries in America. Newspapers take the crown for fastest shrinking. (via The Atlantic Wire)

Good thing CNN is in talks to acquire the booming website Mashable.

The Chicago Sun-Times, on the other hand, is reportedly a potential buyer for Windy City’s iconic weekly The Chicago Reader, a report in Crain's Chicago Business said Monday. In a blog post, the Reader's longtime media columnist Michael Miner questioned the report.

According to a new poll, roughly half of voters in Alabama and Mississippi think Chicago’s own, President Obama, is a Muslim, which inspired a trending topic on Twitter this afternoon: “Obama is Muslim.” The majority of voters in those states also have a favorable opinion of Rush Limbaugh and don't believe in evolution.

A column in The New York Times proposes a code of conduct for bloggers who aggregate and curate content. Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan called it “well-intended,” but a “bad idea.”

Mitt Romney’s campaign threw a birthday party for him on Twitter and only a handful of people showed up.

Wonder how many people will show up to see the film version of Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road,” the release date for which is not set. Given all the attempts to bring the Beat Generation classic to the silver screen, I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, here’s a new trailer: