Kitty Kelley Takes on Oprah

Much-despised biographer of the stars Kitty Kelley is planning on turning her acid pen on Oprah Winfrey. December 14, 2006

Wisteria Lane Gets Its Own Game

Writer Scott Sanford Tobis talks about about the opportunities for writers in the gaming world. December 14, 2006

Comedy Central Adds Embed Code to Motherload Clips

Comedy Central has added embed code to many of its video clips offered on its Motherload website. December 13, 2006

New Law Turns Bloggers, Web 2.0 Sites Into Obscenity Police Force

A new law drafted by Senator John McCain would require blogs, social networks and websites to monitor posts or profiles for "obscenity" and child pornography. December 13, 2006

Stephen King Sells Signed Books For Charity

Stephen King writes in his newsletter that starting tomorrow (December 14th), there are a limited number of autographed copies for sale of his book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and John Irving's Until I Find You. December 13, 2006

Truthiness is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year

Merriam-Webster has announced that they have selected truthiness as the 2006 Word of the Year. December 13, 2006

Stupid User Generated Content Aggregators

Are some of the most successful websites really just aggregators of massive amounts of stupid content and hideous templates? Aaron Swartz included a theory called "The Stupidity of Crowds" in his post on his Raw Thought blog about the habits of the most successful websites. December 12, 2006

Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay Now a Blogger

The US News' Washington Whispers reports that Tom Delay has launched a blog. December 11, 2006

Employee Bonuses Are Shrinking

An article form the Christian Science Monitor reports on some growing scrooge-like behavior currently taking place in corporate America -- bonuses are shrinking. December 11, 2006

IAC Debuts Zwinky Avatar Service

IAC, the holder of some major website including Ask. December 11, 2006

Amazon.com Invests in Wikia

VentureBeat reports that Wikia has raised an undisclosed sum of money from Amazon. December 10, 2006

Blog Herald Sold to Bloggy Network

The Bloggy Network, a UK blog publisher, has bought the Blog Herald from Problogging, Inc. December 9, 2006

Search for Tags with TagBulb

TagBulb is a new search tool that lets you search for tags from multiple Web 2. December 9, 2006

New YouTube Service Uploads Video Directly From Webcams

YouTube has launched a new service called Quick Capture that lets people upload videos to YouTube. December 9, 2006

Mike Cassidy Linkbaits Robert Scoble

Mike Cassidy posted the linkbait headline "That Robert Scoble is a Rascal" after reading Robert Scoble's post full of blogging tips for Mike Cassidy. December 8, 2006

JPG Magazine: Peer Reviwed Photography

JPG Magazine is a photography magazine that is using the Internet to help find new photographs for each issue. December 8, 2006

Metacafe Sold For $200 Million

Ynetnews reports that Metacafe, a video sharing website, has been sold for $200 million. December 7, 2006

Bush Says James Baker Can Go Back to His Day Job

James Baker has presented the Iraq Study Group's report to the White House and to the public. December 7, 2006

Wikipedia Blogger Pages Being Targeted for Deletion

A war against blogs is being waged at Wikipedia. December 7, 2006

Yiyun Li Wins Guardian First Book Award

Chinese-born author Yiyun Li has won the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, a book of short stories. December 7, 2006

Microsoft's RSS Blog Pranked For Hotlinking Flickr Photo Without Proper Attribution

Tom Bishop, who blogs for the Seattle-PI, blogs that a post on Microsoft's RSS Blog temporarily contained a modified Goatse image before it was removed. December 6, 2006

Japanese Group Wants YouTube to Take Preemptive Action To Stop Copyright Violations

The International Herald Tribune (IHT) is reporting that a Japanese entertainment group wants YouTube to develop a system to stop users from uploading copyright infringing videos. December 6, 2006

Technology Keeps Employees Working During Vacation Days

Is modern technology having a negative impact on vacation time? That's the gist of an article from eWeek. December 6, 2006

GigaOm Network Launches NewTeeVee

GigaOM has launched a new blog covering online video called NewTeeVee. December 5, 2006

Yahoo and Reuters Seek Photobloggers

The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo and Reuters are launching a service centered around photographs and videos submitted by the general public. December 4, 2006