Plenty of news items from today's Apple media event. New iPods. Addition of HD TV show downloads available iTunes. A "Genius" function at iTunes to create custom playlists. No music subscription service was announced. Apple's share price is down 7.2% from its high yesterday and fell 3% during the presentation.

• Ars Technica on Apple's announcement of new iPods and iTunes 8. On the new version of iTunes, "Confirming "tons of new stuff" and features that were rumored over the weekend, Jobs announced a new Pandora-like 'Genius' feature that can generate playlists of songs 'that go great together.'"
• Hands on the new iPod touch 2G at Engadget. "Jury's still out on the new nano, but the second-gen touch is a marked improvement over the first gen model. The WiFi antenna looks much better integrated, the speaker doesn't sound like complete trash despite not even having any speaker holes, and the thing is crazy thin."
• Hands on the new iPod nano 4G at Engadget. "Yep, it's pretty much what you expected."
• Engadget liveblogging the event.
• The New York Times liveblogging the event. "So far Apple is keeping the $149 starting price for the Nano and $249 for the Classic, increasing the capacity of both. This is a vote of confidence in demand."