In your blustery Wednesday media column: the newspaper industry burns, News Corp can't handle hardcore music, NPR needs more black people, and the NYT sells a jet: What is happening in the land of dying newspapers today? Only the usual tragedy and grief. The Miami Herald is laying off a fifth of its...

Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this s...

Since MySpace lost it’s VP of product strategy - I’m gonna keep spewing out free strategy to them - as they’re the ones who are keeping Facebook honest.  I hope everyone noticed that as soon as Facebook launched their Facebook platform - all of a sudden MySpace started to open up ...

Meet Officer Vaughan Ettienne, the bodybuilder who learned the hard way you shouldn't write like a thug online, or a jury might just suspect you of mistreating a suspect. Ettienne (not pictured above, that's Herc from The Wire) once posted the following under a video clip of a cop punching a handcuf...

“911 what’s your emergency?� the operator asked. “It’s my daughter Tiffany! I just came over and found her unconscious in her bed! Please send someone over here right away! She can’t die!� Tiffany’s mother cried hysterically. “Ma’am, I need you to calm down. What’s the address ...

I’ve been tracking MySpace’s progress, and the Dow Jones purchase, the rise of Fox News and (of course) the Simpsons, 24 and House. I’ve also noticed MySpace’s increased focus on becoming an open social network, the loss of Amit and some other MySpace execs and ultimately the...

Twenty-four-year-old Sacramento, California brunette Tera Lynn is an up-and-coming fashion, bikini and glamour model. And other than the fact that she looks rockin' in a bikini (or pretty much anything else), we don't know much about her. And when a girl looks this good, that's a damn shame....

I spent much of last fall at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy. While there, I researched issues related to journalism, trust and credibility – and in particular what role emerging social media might play in add...

Today, I spoke with Julia Angwin , who works for the Wall Street Journal and is the author of Stealing MySpace.  In this interview she talks to us about her new book, the story of MySpace, how it compares to Facebook, and if MySpace is safe for kids. What is unique about the story of MySpace? “My...

Jodi Arias, 29, is incarcerated at the Estrella Jail in Phoenix, Arizona, awaiting trial for the murder of her 30 year old boyfriend, motivational speaker Travis Alexander.  He was found dead on June 9, 2008 at his home, with a gunshot wound to the face and stab wounds all over his body.  It turns...