I’m a fan of well-written online nov­els — I’ve had lots of peo­ple email me to say that Return of the Leg­ends was far bet­ter than most techno-thrillers they’ve read — so I’m happy to pass along word of a new thriller that’s avail­able online: James Aach’s Rad Deci­sion.

It’s a techno-thriller about a nuclear power plant, writ­ten by an engi­neer with over 20 years of expe­ri­ence in the U.S. nuclear indus­try. Author Stew­art Brand says, “I’d like to see Rad Deci­sion widely read.” Aach already has most of the chap­ters online and will con­tinue putting up three a week until mid-November. The novel will remain online after it is com­pleted. Check it out.

Tom Forem­ski at New Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Blogzine writes obliquely about an inci­dent he and Dan Gill­mor blogged about and then con­cludes, “Stand­alone jour­nal­ism does not work.”

Couldn’t dis­agree more, but head on over and see if you think Tom makes his case.

New at Jib­Jab: Big Box Mart.

For those who missed the Media Cen­ter’s We Media con­fer­ence in New York on Oct. 5, they’ve put up a nice, con­cise, attrac­tive page that lets you lis­ten to audio of the sessions.

Here’s our 6-year-old, Bobby, in his Bion­i­cle war­rior out­fit, taken a few min­utes ago.

In this mp3 from the DV Show released today, pio­neer vlog­ger Steve Garfield gives us tips on how to add video to your blog so you can start videoblog­ging, as well as how to add video to a video iPod. Also, Holmes Wil­son, the devel­oper behind DTV and the Broad­cast Machine, dis­cusses the future of tele­vi­sion and video on the Inter­net. Both are on the sec­ond half of the mp3 file.

Michael Kins­ley in an op-ed piece (Knight-Ridder reg­is­tra­tion required) today: All the world’s a stage for indictment’s tan­gled plot line. Kins­ley has come to the same con­clu­sion that many of us arrived at months ago:

The New York Times has started ner­vously back­ing away from Miller, like hik­ers try­ing to escape a rat­tlesnake. The rest of the media are flee­ing with­out restraint. She’s not a good poster child for the cause. But the cause itself remains some­what bewil­der­ing. Why should you go to jail to pro­tect the iden­tity of a source who has used anonymity sys­tem­at­i­cally and suc­cess­fully to deceive you and your read­ers? Why should Scooter Libby go to jail — invol­un­tar­ily — for hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with you that you think the Con­sti­tu­tion should pro­tect and even encour­age? Either this whole pros­e­cu­tion is nuts or the main­stream media view of reporters’ rights is nuts. Which is it?

This week­end the Online News Asso­ci­a­tion announced the win­ners of its sixth annual cel­e­bra­tion of the best in online jour­nal­ism. The New York Times, New West, Lawrence.com and Slate were among the win­ners.

In keep­ing with the organization’s glacial embrace of change, there were no cat­e­gories devoted to blog­ging or cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism. There was some dis­cus­sion of the topic, how­ever, on the con­fer­ence par­tic­i­pants’ blog.

From today’s San Jose Mer­cury News: Con­nected city: Mesh net­works could give San Fran­cisco res­i­dents wire­less Inter­net ser­vice. When SF sounded the call for ideas this sum­mer on how to bring cheap, wire­less Inter­net con­nec­tions to the entire city, tech­nol­ogy indus­try giants responded with one answer — mesh networks.

To read the pro­pos­als from sev­eral com­pa­nies, go here.

We have a new mash-up as the lead video on Our­me­dia: Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger debates himself.