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Myspace the Movie Short Film Pokes Fun at Social Network

Myspace the Movie is a funny short film that pokes fun at some of the activities that take place on MySpace. April 2, 2006

Clooney Suggests Flooding Gawker Stalker With Fake Celeb Sightings

Page Six reports George Clooney has an idea that will make Gawker Stalker less effective at providing recent celebrity sightings. March 31, 2006

MySpace Purges 200,000 Profiles

Financial Times reports that MySpace has terminated 200,000 "objectionable" profiles. March 31, 2006

Borders Bans Issue of Magazine Containing Mohammed Cartoons

Borders has banned the April-May issue of Free Inquiry because the magazine published some the controversial Mohammed cartoons. March 31, 2006

James Frey Caused Oprah to Gain Weight

The National Enquirer reports that the damage that author James Frey wreaked upon Oprah Winfrey apparently lingers on. March 31, 2006

Xianz Calls Itself The Christian MySpace

Xianz (pronounced as Zans) is a Christian social network that describes itself as a safe alternative to MySpace. March 30, 2006

New Blog DealBreaker Provides Wall Street Gossip

DealBreaker. March 30, 2006

Women Still Underrepresented on Alists

Kami Huyse at Overtone Communications blogs that only 10% of the blogs in the Top 50 spots on the Technorati 100 have women bloggers. March 30, 2006

Las Vegas Residents Have Some Surprises In Store For Them

A Senior Defense official announced that the U. March 30, 2006

Britney Spears and the Sitcom Writers

Britney Spears is going to be a guest star on Will and Grace. March 30, 2006

Snakes on a Blogosphere

The upcoming movie called Snakes on a Plane starring Samuel L. March 29, 2006

Facebook Holding Out For $2 Billion

Facebook is on the block according to a Businessweek article that says Facebook turned down an offer of $750 million from Viacom and would prefer something more like $2 billion. March 29, 2006

AP Only Credits Blogs That They Know

It appears that the Associated Press only credits blogs that they know -- even if they are made aware of the fact that the source was a blog. March 29, 2006

More Americans Now Call Themselves Democrats

A new Gallup poll shows that more Americans now consider themselves Democrats than Republicans, with 33% considering themselves Democrats. March 29, 2006

Technorati Adds List of Most Popular YouTube Videos

Technorati now has a list of the most linked YouTube videos in the blogosphere. March 29, 2006

Meez to Sell Custom 3D Avatars

Forbes has a story about a company named Meez that has an interesting business model: selling 3D avatars and avatar outfits. March 29, 2006

Online Library Computer Center Names Top 1000 Books

The Online Computer Library Center (the "OCLC") member libraries have named the 2005 list of the "Top 1000" titles: the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of libraries around the globe. March 29, 2006

Is Your Blog Hot or Not?

Jim and James, the guys behind the Hot or Not website, have set up a Hot or Not side for blogs called Blog Hot or Not. March 28, 2006

Oops! Google Deletes Its Own BlogSpot Blog

SearchEngineWatch reported yesterday that Google's BlogSpot blog at googleblog. March 28, 2006

Fed Raises Interest Rates

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Fed raised interest rates again and signaled that this may be only the beginning of another series of interest rate hikes. March 28, 2006

PR Bloggers Discuss New Strumpette Blog

A new blog called Strumpette has launched with the goal of stirring things up in the PR industry. March 28, 2006

Can You Get Hired for Gaming?

Wired reports that Stephen Gillett landed a senior director job at Yahoo partly because of his World of Warcraft skills. March 28, 2006

New Magazines Like Cookie Focus on Upscale Parenting

USA Today has an article that discusses two new publications that focus on upscale parents: Cookie and Wondertime. March 28, 2006

Tom Hanks Loves Starbucks

According to The Hollywood Reporter Tom Hanks is set to star in the film version of the soon-to-be-published book, How Starbucks Saved My Life (Gotham). March 28, 2006

The Greeting Card Graveyard

So where do all of Hallmark's rejected greeting cards go? To the greeting card graveyard, of course. March 28, 2006