Dan Kennedy gets the scoop: Howard Owens, who built the chain's Wicked Local Web presence, has left the virtual building.

If you publicly refer to a Globe reporter's story as the sort of crap that would entitle one of your own readers to kick your sorry behind, don't be surprised if the Globe reporter fires back (click for the media insults, but stay for Geoff Edgers's mea culpa on the second half of the story).

UPDATE: Thanks to Ron Newman, there are now plenty of details, in the comments.

But other than that, we have no details on the GateHouse link suit, which was due to go to trial today.

If true, then I'll stop my own personal embargo on links to GateHouse articles.

Order dismissing the case, which, like the Globe story, has no details.

Dan Kennedy posts a copy of the Times' 100-page answer to the GateHouse link lawsuit, explains why both sides are wrong and should settle before they both manage to break the Internet.

Randy Turner reports that new GateHouse Media president Kirk Davis, formerly of the Massachusetts GateHouses, will earn $461,260.80 this year - way more than the guy he replaced at the helm of a company with stock now going for about 7 cents a share. And yet, that's nothing: You should see what the company CEO earns.

Via Dan Kennedy, who writes:

... I think Davis is fundamentally a good guy, and that GateHouse can only benefit from having him run its day-to-day operations. But this is terrible symbolism.

Earlier:
GateHouse stops 401(k) contributions.

Company CEO delivered the news yesterday - no more contributions until the economy gets better.

Chuck Tanowitz, who lives and blogs in Newton and who does public relations and marketing for a living, considers the Gatehouse-vs-Globe issue, concludes there's less to the Globe's efforts than meet the eye and that what's at issue is really GateHouse's survival under an attack from an organization using its own content against it.

After finally reading GateHouse's complaint and editor Greg Reibman's affidavit, I'm not worried about finding some guy at my door with a document in a blue jacket (speaking of documents, here they all are).

OK, truth be told, I wasn't really worried about that to begin with, so, yes, I was getting all drama-queenish on Monday (see Adam Reilly's take). But the GateHouse suit still bothers me.

Dan Kennedy breaks the news that GateHouse Media will sue the New York Times Co. over the way the Globe's Your Town sites (starting with Newton) allegedly violate GateHouse's intellectual property rights by selling ads on pages with links to GateHouse articles.

Whoa. I make money from ads on pages with links to GateHouse articles, so effective immediately, I won't be linking to any more articles on GateHouse sites. It's a shame, GateHouse papers do some good work and they seemed to understand how the Web is built, but the last thing I need is to defend myself from a lawsuit over hyperlinks (and yeah, I'm probably being melodramatic; GateHouse could have sued me long ago, but their links aren't worth that much trouble to me). So, GateHouse, how come you haven't sued Google yet?

I suppose there's a reason boston.com has posted a GateHouse video about how great the Newton Tab is. Maybe it's the ads they've wrapped around it.