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Vibe and Stan Lee's Pow to Create Urban Superhero

Vibe Magazine and Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment have announce an exclusive partnership to create an urban superhero. July 3, 2005

PennWell Names Philip LoPiccolo Editor-in-Chief of Solid State

PennWell Corporation has named veteran business/technology chief editor Philip LoPiccolo to the position of Editor-in-Chief of Solid State Technology magazine effective June 16. July 2, 2005

BackBoneMedia Releases Corporate Blogging Case Study

Backbonemedia has published the results from an interesting survey and study of bloggers at hundreds of companies. July 1, 2005

Friendster Names Taek Kwon CEO

Friendster, a social networking service, has appointed Taek Kwon as chief executive officer. July 1, 2005

The Science of Middle Earth

Lord of the Rings is often discussed as a perfect fantasy series with magic, fantastic settings and interesting creatures like elves, dragons, hobbits, dwarves and orcs. July 1, 2005

RocketBoom Vlog Receives 25,000 Downloads Per Day

RocketBoom, a short video blog newscast produced each weekday, continues to generate buzz. June 30, 2005

Ziff Davis Names Jim McCabe VP and Publisher of PC Magazine

Ziff Davis Media Inc. June 30, 2005

New Sappho Poem Discovered

The Guardian reports that a poem written by Sappho over 2,600 years ago has been published for the first time. June 30, 2005

FindCliches.com Lists Overused Plot Ideas

FindCliches is a website that lists clichés. June 30, 2005

Historian and Novelist Shelby Foote Dies at 88

Shelby Foote, a popular Civil War historian and novelist, has died at the age of 88. June 30, 2005

City Bloggers Keep Conversations Going

Bloggers in cities around the United States are organizing to share resources, ideas and stories. June 29, 2005

Paid Bloggers and Disclosure

The Boston Herald has an interesting article about bloggers who are getting paid to mention a product or store. June 29, 2005

MSNBC.com Launches Digital Life

MSNBC. June 29, 2005

Narnia Displays Coming Soon to Bookstores

Narnia themes and displays will soon be in bookstore everywhere but not until after the new Harry Potter release on July 16th. June 29, 2005

Douglas Adams: A Man Ahead of His Time

Douglas Adams, the popular author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other popular mystery and science fiction novels, was clearly a man ahead of his time. June 29, 2005

George Orwell's Home Gets a Refurb

The home where legendary author Eric Arthur Blair (who became known as George Orwell) was born is being turned into a first-class museum. June 29, 2005

Drapes Removed from Justice Department Statue

Reuters reports that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has signed an order to remove the drapes that former Attorney General John Ascroft had placed on the statue in the Great Hall at the U. June 28, 2005

Bloggers Organize to Fight Government Regulation

Bloggers are organizing in an attempt to keep the Federal Election Commission from extending campaign finance rules to blogs. June 28, 2005

Jordan Bans Saddam Hussein's Novel

Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's novel called Get Out You Damned has been banned by Jordan officials who say the novel could harm relations between Jordan and Iraq. June 28, 2005

John Donovan Named Editor-in-Chief for Portable Design

Portable Design, a magazine providing information about mobile technologies and products, has appointed John Donovan as Editor-in-Chief. June 28, 2005

John Twelve Hawks: Living Off the Grid

USA Today delves into the mystery author who calls himself John Twelve Hawks. June 28, 2005

AOL's BlogZones Provide Blogosphere Coverage

AOL has a website called the BlogZone which provides coverage of what blogs are saying about politics and entertainment. June 27, 2005

What are Dark Blogs?

Dark blogs are the blogs hidden behind corporate firewalls that the public does not have access to. June 27, 2005

Topher Grace Joins Spider-Man 3 Cast

Topher Grace has joined the cast of Spider-Man 3, it was announced by director Sam Raimi and producers Laura Ziskin and Marvel Studio's Avi Arad. June 27, 2005

New War of the Worlds Books in Stores

USA Today reports that three new illustrated versions of H. June 27, 2005