George Landau has left the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to start NewsEngin, Inc., "an information engineering co-op." Landau aims to provide affordable database applications for organizations willing to build intranets, as well as Internet products using common Web database technology from Microsoft and Lotus.

Check out what Landau has to offer at http://www.NewsEngin.com

Among other things, you'll find a Cost-Of-Living calculator and Percent Change calculator in the Free Tools section. Landau will also be working on research and development projects with NICAR.