Google has just announced new efforts to help magazine and newspaper publishers with a new search service that displays results in the style of a “virtual magazine”. The program is called “Fast Flip” and will launch with featured content from The New York Times, The Washington Post and the BBC.

The NY Times reported on Sunday afternoon that an unauthorized advertisement on their site was malware. Readers of their website had seen a pop-up box warning them about a virus with then directed them to a site claiming offers of an antivirus software. The infection notice is a common ploy used by rogue anti-Virus software, and put NY Times web editors in the unenviable position of reporting on their own troubles.

9/11 is a date that has come to represent a lot of complicated ideas. Memories of the attack come with a real sense of unity and global support that immediately followed. Suddenly it became a political football, used to exemplify a lack of patriotism (or a pre-existing bias). But judging by the coverage in today’s Newspapers, we seem to have moved on, or have at least started the process…

In hopes to win new readers and advertisers and start a new regional market by offering more local news, both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are planning San Francisco Bay Area editions. The NY Times reports that the new strategy could be the first glimpse at a new strategy by national newspapers to capitalize on the contraction of regional papers

This week reports surfaced that Bob Dylan was considering lending his voice to a GPS navigation system. Numerous mainstream media sources picked up the story and ran it as hard news — BBC, NY Times, and the Washington Post all published stories about the convergence of 60′s folk rock and the latest in automotive technology. But as Gossip Cop reported today, this story doesn’t exactly check out.

Pretty much everyone – from Politics Daily to BusinessWeek to the LA Times to textbook companies and every techie publication known to man – is anticipating the release of a Kindle-esque Apple tablet, or at least an announcement of it. Perhaps Steve Jobs spoke too soon last year when he told the New York Times that the Kindle would inevitably fail because Americans just don’t read anymore.