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Chase in Exclusive Credit Card Deal with Facebook

The Wall Street Journal reports that credit card companies have noticed social networks and that J. August 21, 2006

Tamara Hoover Resigns After Settlement

Remember Tamara Hoover, the Austin high school teacher who was escorted from the school after partially nude photographs of her were discovered on Flickr? She was the #1 Technorati search term for a day or two back in June. August 21, 2006

Blogs Least Trusted Media Source

This is London is reporting that blogs are the least trusted source of information about current affairs and events. August 21, 2006

Bush: Iraq Had Nothing to Do With 9/11

In his press conference today, President Bush admitted again that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 and that Saddam Hussein did not have any weapons of mass destruction. August 21, 2006

Blue Dot Popular in Japan

Blue Dot is a new web service that combines social networking and social bookmarking features. August 21, 2006

AOL Buys GamesDaily Website

AOL has acquired the GameDaily website and newsletter from Gigex. August 21, 2006

See Alyssa Shelasky Date on New Glamour Blog

Glamour has launched a small blog network that includes a reality-television style dating blog called See Alyssa Date. August 20, 2006

Engadget Nabs Top Technorati Spot

Engadget has taken the #1 slot on the Technorati 100. August 20, 2006

Famster Offers Family Websites, Blogs and Video Sharing

Famster is a new family-oriented homepage service that includes blogs, video sharing and many other features. August 20, 2006

NY Observer to Add Content to Compete With Blogs

Patrick Phillips at I Want Media has an interview with New York Observer owner Jared Kushner. August 19, 2006

Snakes on a Plane Debuts in Theatres

Snakes on a Plane, a film with enormous web buzz behind it, debuts in theatres today. August 18, 2006

Iraq Faces an Oil Shortage

Yes, you read that headline correctly. August 18, 2006

YouTube.com Down For Maintenance

YouTube says it is down for maintenance and has posted the following message, "We are releasing a couple of new things and doing some maintenance. August 18, 2006

Ophidiophobia on a Plane

The Word of the Day is ophidiophobia: a fear of snakes. August 18, 2006

Read Blogs on Cereal Boxes by 2020

Vnunet. August 17, 2006

Cyberbullying Problems Continue to Climb

An NBC News article cites a study from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children that found the number of children solicited for sex online has fallen. August 17, 2006

Schwarzenegger Leads the Way With Global Warming Initiative

Fed up with President Bush's willful ignorance on the subject of global warming, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed his own global warming pact with British prime minister Tony Blair. August 17, 2006

PC Advisor Accuses Bloggers of Navel Gazing

We have spotted another good article for our blog pessimism category. August 17, 2006

Chow Time for CNET

CNET is behind a new food-related website called Chow. August 17, 2006

Haydon Carter Gets His Devil Wears Prada Moment

Variety reports that the success of The Devil Wears Prada has spawned another film. August 17, 2006

Pedro Almodovar Insults American Screenwriters

Famed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar unexpectedly slammed the quality of American screenwriting, citing the lack of literary quality in scripts as one of the reasons he has decided not to move from Spain to Hollywood. August 17, 2006

Ahmadinejad's Blog Accumulates Traffic and Inbound Links

When Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a blog earlier this week so many bloggers covered the story and linked to the blog that Ahmadinejad's blog has already jumped to a rank of 3,706 on Technorati (out of about 50 million blogs) with nearly 500 inbound links. August 16, 2006