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Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth Takes Home Best Documentary Oscar

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary about global warming, won the Oscar for Best Documentary last night. February 26, 2007

National Association of Photoshop Professionals Launches Darkroom

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) has launched Darkroom, a how-to magazine for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom users. February 26, 2007

Martin Scorsese Wins Oscar For Best Director

It was finally Martin Scorsese's time: last night he won the Oscar for Best Director for The Departed. February 26, 2007

Little Miss Sunshine and The Departed Win Screenwriting Oscars

Michael Arndt won Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine and William Monahan picked up the Oscar for Best Adapated Screenplay for The Departed. February 26, 2007

MyBlogLog Plugs Security Holes and Bugs. Explains Ad Clicks

There has been a lot of discussion lately about bugs, spam and security holes on MyBlogLog, the popular social networking widget for blogs. February 24, 2007

Digg Unbans Domains and Improves Spam Fighting Technology

Pronet Advertising has a list of domains that have been unbanned from Digg. February 24, 2007

Tolkien Estate Gets Court Order Against File-Sharing Website

The estate of J. February 24, 2007

More Internet Strangeness From Senator Ted Stevens

More Internet strangeness has been discovered about Senator Ted Stevens. February 23, 2007

YouTube Close To Implementing Anti-Piracy Technology

The Mercury News and TechCrunch are both reporting on YouTube's decision to use copyright filtering technology provided by Audible Magic. February 23, 2007

Writers Hired to Pen Justice League Movie

Warner Bros has hired writers Kiernan and Michele Mulroney to write the script for its upcoming Justice League of America movie. February 23, 2007

Tony Snow, David Gregory Criticize Blogs

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow made some negative comments about blogs during a press roundtable at the National Press Club. February 22, 2007

Google Reader, MyYahoo, Bloglines, NewsGator and Netvibes Dominating RSS Feed Market

Most publishers found that their RSS subscriber counts jumped a healthy 20-50% earlier this week when Google Reader started reporting subscriber counts. February 22, 2007

Perez Hilton Sued For Posting Topless Jennifer Aniston Photograph

Mario Lavandeira, the blogger better known as Perez Hilton (perezhilton. February 22, 2007

Are Blog Networks Failing?

Paul Scrivens at Wisdump has a post about why he thinks blog networks have failed. February 22, 2007

Monster and New York Times Cut Deal

The New York Times Co. February 22, 2007

The Rise of the Fictomercial in Advertising

So what's a fictiomercial? It's part of the growing trend of non-traditional ways to advertise products which has grown to a $2 billion business. February 22, 2007

Vanity Fair Launches Oscars Blog

Eventually we will hit an awards season where every major media company already has an awards blog. February 21, 2007

Are Tech IPOs on the Rebound?

Bloggers are discussion Business 2. February 21, 2007

Speaker Nancy Pelosi Launches The Gavel

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has launched a new blog called The Gavel. February 21, 2007

An Inconvenient Truth Lands in Oscar Swag Bags

According to Publisher's Weekly, Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth (a companion to his Oscar-nominated documentary film by the same name) will be included in some very high-level Oscar Swag bags, thanks to some quick maneuvering by publisher Rodale. February 21, 2007