StarWars.com Offers Blogs for Fan Club Members

The official Star Wars site from Lucasfilm, StarWars. May 18, 2005

Books Find Spiritual Side of Star Wars

A USA Today article discusses several books that discuss the spiritual side of the blockbuster Star Wars saga. May 18, 2005

Bee Movie Talent Announced

DreamWorks Animation has announced the roster of voice actors for its upcoming computer-animated comedy, Bee Movie. May 18, 2005

Sideways Author Tells All

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has an interview with Rex Pickett, author of the novel Sideways, which was the basis for the Oscar-nominated film of the same name. May 18, 2005

Blogs Don't Need Comments

The debate over whether or not blogs need features like comments or trackbacks has been going on for a while and is unlikely to end soon. May 17, 2005

Supreme Court Boosts Interstate Direct Wine Sales

Wine wholesalers and distributors fought against it, but The Supreme Court struck down the struck down Michigan and New York's bans on interstate wine sales. May 17, 2005

Blogs to Threaten Ecommerce Giants Like eBay?

Blogspotting has entry for BusinessWeek asking whether blogs could ultimately distrupt the business plans of Internet giants like eBay and Monster. May 17, 2005

Read the World Project Promotes Translations

Booksellers and book publisher are uniting for Read the World, a project to help promote translations worldwide. May 17, 2005

Don't Dump Email Marketing for RSS

Email Sherpa, an email marketing newsletter from MarketingSherpa. May 16, 2005

Did Newsweek Get It Wrong?

So after igniting riots in the Muslim world with its story about how U. May 16, 2005

Brad Weston Named Co-President Production for Paramount

Brad Grey, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures, has announced the appointment of Brad Weston as Co-President, Production for Paramount Pictures. May 16, 2005

Lawrence Watt-Evans' Publishing Experiment

Author Lawrence Watt-Evans is experimenting with offering the next book in his popular Legends of Ethshar series as a serial on his website. May 16, 2005

IBM Tells Employees to Blog Away

The Silicon Valley Watch (SVW) reports that IBM is going to encourage its 130,000 employees to start blogs. May 15, 2005

Teens Using Internet to Communicate

Xanga. May 15, 2005

U.S. Mayors Join Kyoto in Defiance of Bush

Fed up with rising children's asthma rates and breathing polluted air, a bipartisan group of 132 U. May 14, 2005

Tribune to Launch Magazine for Chicago Baby Boomers

Tribune Publishing has announced plans to launch Satisfaction, a magazine designed to help adults age 55 to 64 make the transition to this new stage in life. May 13, 2005

Voinovich Throws in the Towel on Bolton

In a dramatic denouement to the Bolton Senate Committee fight, Republican Senator George Voinovich threw in the towel and voted to allow John Bolton's nommination as U. May 13, 2005

Aquantive CEO: Advertisers More Comfortable on MSM Blogs

Aquantive CEO Brian McAndrews stopped by BusinessWeek and talked to Blogspotting. May 12, 2005

Must You Read Your Friend's Boring Blog?

Some friends of bloggers are becoming overwhelmed by the volume of blogs they have to read each day. May 12, 2005

Buchanan Crosses the Line With World War II Column

Pat Buchanan really crosses the line with a new column in which he questions whether World War II was worth fighting. May 12, 2005

Jhumpa Lahiri and the Author Interview From Hell

The New York Post's Page Six reports on a bizarre incident yesterday at an annual fundraising lunch to benefit the New York Public Library. May 12, 2005

Everything Bad Is Good for You?

Just when you thought you had reached your limit of having yet another expert tell you that everything you do is bad for you, along comes a new book that pooh-poohs all the experts. May 12, 2005

BloggersBlog on CNN's Inside the Blogs

Thanks to blog reporter Jacki Schechner and producer Abbi Tatton of CNN's Inside the Blogs for featuring BloggersBlog. May 11, 2005

Recycling and the Art of the Nervous Breakdown

Think that recyling is too much bother? Too busy to sort your trash into two bags? If you lived in Kamikatsu, Japan, you might have some kind of nervous breakdown when faced with their draconian new trash-sorting laws. May 11, 2005

Fortune 1000 CEOs Not Blogging

USA Today has an interesting article about why there are few blogging CEOs. May 11, 2005