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Blogathon Award Winners Announced

The winners of the Blogathon Awards were announced last month. November 20, 2005

USA Today Continues to Add Blogs

USA Today appears to be getting more serious about their blogs. November 19, 2005

Yahoo 360 Adds New Features

Yahoo 360 blogs that they have added some new features to the Yahoo 360 blogging service. November 18, 2005

Look Now for a Holiday Job

An Associated Press article says you need to be looking now if you want a holiday job. November 18, 2005

Debra Brandt Named Publisher of New York Home

New York Home magazine has named Debra Brandt as Publisher. November 18, 2005

Waitress Shortlisted for Whitbread Award

One of the finalists for the Whitbread Book Awards is a South African-born waitress named Rachel Zadok. November 18, 2005

Ray Ozzie Starts Blog on MSN Spaces

Ray Ozzie has re-entered the blogosphere with a new blog on MSN Spaces. November 17, 2005

Advertisers Win Friends and Influence on MySpace

AdBumb offers an in-depth article (no longer available) about MySpace. November 17, 2005

Will Grandma Blog Your Holiday Visit?

Media coverage of senior blogs is the new rage. November 17, 2005

Democrats Rise From the Dead

Now that a majority of Americans believe that a) going to war in Iraq was a mistake; b) President Bush is not honest and c) there should be a bipartisan investigation into Plamegate, the Democrats have finally stop being so terrified of Dick Cheney. November 17, 2005

GameTap Launched With Over 300 Games

TBS, Inc. November 17, 2005

Joan Didion Wins National Book Award

Joan Didion has won the National Book Award for her book, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf), a moving memoir about the year in which her husband died and her daughter became seriously ill. November 17, 2005

HarperCollins Explains the Good Night Moon Controversy

The New York Times reports on the latest controversy involving digital manipulation of photos. November 17, 2005

Censored Gawker Blogs to Run on Yahoo News

Yahoo has cut a content deal with Gawker Media to feature posts from Gawker blogs starting with these five: Gawker, Wonkette, Gizmodo, Defamer and Lifehacker. November 16, 2005

Bob Woodward's Plamegate Revelation

Bob Woodward decided to reveal today that he was told about Valerie Plame over two years ago. November 16, 2005

John Huey, Jr. Becomes Time Inc.'s Sixth Editor-in-Chief

Norman Pearlstine, Time Inc. November 16, 2005

Frank McCourt Looks Back on a Life in Teaching

Frank McCourt is best known to his readers as the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angela's Ashes. November 16, 2005

Scott Adams and Writer's Block

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and the Dilbert. November 16, 2005

The Complex World of Product Placements

E Online's Answer B!tch shares the scoop about those product placements that the Writers Guild is so unhappy about. November 16, 2005

CBS News to Review Personal Blogs of Employees

CBS News employees interested in started blogs and CBS News employees that already have a personal blog must check their blog in with the SVP of Standards. November 15, 2005

Underneath Their Robes Disappears After Blogger Named

The Underneath Their Robes blog, which posted judicial gossip and humor, has gone offline after the anonymous blogger called Article III Groupie (A3G for short) was identified in a recent New Yorker article. November 15, 2005

Alito Reveals His Personal Thought On Abortion

Well, that didn't take long. November 15, 2005

The Story of Hacking Netflix

Newstimeslive. November 15, 2005

Peter Frank Named Editor-in-Chief of Concierge.com

CondeNet has named Peter Frank, former Deputy Editor of Men's Journal, to be Editor-in-Chief of travel site Concierge. November 15, 2005

Ashcroft Hires Democrat to Shop a Book Deal

The New York Times reports that the extremely conservative former attorney general John Ashcroft is shopping a book proposal. November 15, 2005