Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Washington Post buys Slate online magazine: "Microsoft Corp. sold its popular Slate online magazine Tuesday to The Washington Post Co., a move that makes Slate's political commentary and quirky feature articles more broadly available across the Internet." Now I find this an odd statement, true though it may be, that content owned by a traditional print media company has a better chance of being broadly available on the Internet than it has in the hands of a major, no THE major software company of our time. It says a lot about the nature of Microsoft.