Now that this cold is mostly done kicking me around, a few things:

• More bad news for newspapers: The creative tornado that is Stephanie Grace Lim is leaving the San Jose Mercury News to take a design job with PayPal.


• Don’t miss Karl Gude’s weeklong remembrance at Visual Editors of the late, lamented sports daily The National.


• If you’ve got some cash rattling around in your training budget, you might try The Design Seminar: Visual Storytelling for Print and Web, a seminar at the American Press Institute March 5-8.


• Robin Sloan on how news will be consumed in 5-10 years: “I think ‘news’ just becomes a less distinct category. You don’t sit down with a newspaper, or even a news website, or even a super wireless e-paper device, for 10 minutes in the morning to very formally ‘get your news.’ Rather, you get all sorts of news and information -- from the personal to the professional to the political -- throughout the day, in little bits and bursts, via many different media. With any luck, in 5-10 years the word ‘news’ will be sort of confusing: Don’t you just mean ‘life’?”