BLS Says Retail Salesperson Top Job for 2006

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has listed Retail Salesperson as the top job in 2006. February 22, 2006

Traffic to NBC Olympics Website Soars

There has been plenty of news that less people are tuning into to watch the televised coverage of the Olympics on NBC this year. February 22, 2006

Daniel Craig's Bond Mishaps Continue

The New York Daily News reports on the lastest Daniel Craig/James Bond fiasco: he can't drive the Aston Martin because he doesn't know how to drive a stick shift car. February 22, 2006

Mary Higgins Clark Sued by Playwright

Lloyd Grove reports on the latest bestselling author to get hit with a copyright infringement suit, but this one really sounds fishy to us. February 22, 2006

Financial Times Launches Blog to Go Along With Blog Bashing Article

The Financial Times has launched an article highly critical of blogs and a new blog to go with it. It only makes sense if link bait is involved. February 21, 2006

China Has Incredibly Active White-Collar Bloggers

China Daily has an article that says 52% of white-collar workers in China have a blog. February 21, 2006

Governor Pataki Takes a Stand

Republican New York Governor Pataki and New Jersey lawmakers have stated that they are going to pursue legal action in order to stop the already-approved deal which would allow a Dubai-based company to control a number of major U. February 21, 2006

How About Total Thermomemetracker War?

Want to play a game? Robert Scoble started testing the blog search tools with his brrreeeport game last week and now Steve Rubel has a new nonsense word test called breememe to test the memetrackers. February 21, 2006

Amazon Rumored to Be Plotting iTunes Challenge

Multiple nedia outlets are reporting on a story that originated in the Wall Street Journal that says Amazon is in talks with record labels about launching its digital music service including a digital music player. February 21, 2006

Margaret Atwood's Remote-Controlled Autograph Signing Machine Now a Reality

Booker Award-winning author Margaret Atwood is formally introducing her infamous remote control autograph-signing device. February 21, 2006

How Quickly Does the A-list Change?

There are lots of highlights from New York Magazine's Blog to Riches article which discusses blogs and the A-list -- with a focus on Technorati 100. February 20, 2006

Do Sites Like MySpace Threaten Matchmaking Websites?

eMarketer has an article called "Online Dating Gets Tough" (link no longer available) which covers the shrinking revenue growth at online matchmaking websites like Match. February 20, 2006

Space Tourism's First Stop: Dubai

Not only will cargo coming into the United States through several of its major ports have to go through facilities owned by the UAE (United Arab Emirates), now it appears that if you want to go into space as a space tourist, you will have to visit a the new Spaceport operated by and located in -- you guessed it -- the UAE. February 20, 2006

New York Times Launches Blog by Frank Bruni

The New York Times has launched a blog called the Diner's Journal for Frank Bruni, their restaurant critic. February 20, 2006

Ohio Company Tags Workers With Electronic Implants

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Mr. Magazine Names the Most Notable Magazine Launches of 2005

Samir Husni, also known as Mr. February 20, 2006

Brokeback Mountain Wins Four BAFA Awards

Brokeback Mountain cleaned up at the BAFA (Orange British Film Academy) awards. February 20, 2006

Writer's Assistant on Friends Reveals the Sordid Habits of Some TV Writers

Did you ever see the old Dick Van Dyke Show? Dick, Sally and Morty were the writers on a variety show. February 20, 2006

Columnist Compares Blogs to Minesweeper

A blog blasting opinion article by Joe Lavin of the Boston Herald compares the time lost reading blogs to the time lost playing Minesweeper. February 18, 2006

Port Security Threatened by Turning our Port Control Over to the United Arab Emirates

This is really the last straw for a supposedly "tough on terror" admininistration. February 18, 2006

A Blog Without Comments is Still a Blog

Russell Beattie recently removed comments from his blog. February 18, 2006

PubSub Adds Comics Community List

PubSub. February 17, 2006

NBC Lawyers Stop Lazy Sunday Viral

Boing Boing reports that NBC lawyers have ordered YouTube to remove the popular Lazy Sunday: Chronicles of Narnia video that appeared on Saturday Night Live. February 17, 2006

MediaShift on Podcast Directories

Mark Glaser at MediaShift has an entry that describes some of the more useful podcast directories including iTunes, Podcast Alley, Yahoo Podcasts, Odeo and Podcast. February 17, 2006

Small Boston Paper Publishes Mohammed Cartoon

Editor & Publisher reports that the Spare Change News, a small Boston newspaper, has published one of the controversial Mohammed Cartoons. February 17, 2006