FlatRateInfo has added a new feature called Ifone: "The NEW iPhones database contains over 150 million consumer-initiated telephone numbers. This database also contains over 10 million primary and 16 million secondary addresses not found in directories and over 40 million non-white page sourced telephone listings." I'll leave it up to you to figure out what a consumer-initiated telephone number is.

IRE/NICAR has updated its National Practitioner Data Bank database. It includes more than 340,000 records on medical malpractice payments, licensing problems, adverse DEA reports and more for doctors, dentists and other licensed health care professionals. IRE/NICAR sells databases to journalists for a fee.

I've mentioned ohMYNews before: It's a hugely popular Korean Web site that enlists average citizens as reporters. It now has an English version. I bring it up again because ohMYNews is a new model for journalism made possible by the Internet. Here is the original manifesto from the founder of ohMYNews, and as you read it, ask yourself if Korean society is so much different than our own:

"Born in the spring of the new millennium, OhmyNews declares it is making a complete departure from the media culture of the 20th century. We are going to change the culture of how news is produced, distributed, and consumed, all at one time.

Every citizen's a reporter. Journalists aren't some exotic species, they're everyone who seeks to take new developments, put them into writing, and share them with others.

This common truth has been trampled on in a culture where being a reporter is seen as something of a privilege to be enjoyed. Privileged reporters come together to form massive news media wielded power over the whole process of news production, distribution, and consumption.

The seriousness of the problem is that the massive media power is the final gutter of Korean capitalist society. There is a lot about those media that is dirty, and yet they have packaged themselves as clean and acted self-righteous towards the rest of society.

... Technology has been developing at nonstop pace, the world has changed, and readers have changed. What was even more of an unsettling was that it was none other than these massive gutters that were reacting to these changes with the most agility.

We therefore stand up to them raising high the flag of guerrilla warfare. Our weapon is the proposition that "every citizen is a reporter."

...

We have three main tactics.

• Abolish the threshold to being a reporter.
• Break down the set formula for news articles.
• Demolish all walls that separate media."