There was a lot of Internet buzz when Quarterlife, a show about twenty-somethings, was moved from web to NBC during the Writer’s Strike. Unfortunately, online buzz does not always translate into offline success – just ask Snakes on a Plane. Quarterlife turned out the lowest ratings for its time slot in over twenty years [...]

Google AdSense – an advertising vehicle used by many bloggers – is updating its terms and conditions for publishers using Google AdSense. A post on the Google AdSense blog says the changes have to do with future products – that may be priced, paid, or managed differently than current products – and with privacy requirements [...]

It turns out the Oscars show was more exciting than we expected. It’s a good thing we went in with low expectations as Nikki Finke suggested. Jon Stewart was there to provide humor and save us from the lack of exciting films. No Country For Old Men won four Oscars including Best Picture. You [...]

The BBC is reporting that Pakistan’s attempts to block YouTube resulted in an hour-long nearly worldwide blockage of YouTube’s website.

BBC News has learned that the outage was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and Asian internet service provider PCCW.
A leading net professional said the global outage was “probably a mistake”.
Pakistan ordered internet service providers to [...]

There’s far less buzz for this year’s Oscars than there was in 2006 and 2007. The 100-day writer’s strike may have helped to dampen the buzz. During the strike we weren’t sure if there would even be an oscars. Writers are now back at work but there hasn’t been much time to hype up the [...]

There are some stories here, here, here and here that the traffic to Facebook might be falling or plateauing in the U.S. and/or in the UK. Webware notes that it was never going to be possible for Facebook to sustain its explosive 200,000 new members per day growth forever.

It’s inevitable that the explosive expansion that [...]

A new Digg-like news website called Newspond has debuted. What’s interesting about Newspond is not the site’s layout or features or that it is yet another social news (YANS) website. Instead what is interesting about Newspond is the audacious claims Newspond makes. TechCrunch found on Newspond’s about page the claim that Newspond says [...]

Google has added another blog to its growing list of corporate blogs. This blog called the Google Grants Blog helps charities learn how to make use of the Google Grants porgram. Google says its grants program has awarded AdWords advertising to hundreds of non-profit groups whose missions range from animal welfare to literacy, from supporting [...]

A wiki website called Wikileaks that let whistle-blowers post documents anonymously has been shut down by a California court the BBC reports.

Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says.
The case was brought by a Swiss bank after “several hundred” documents were posted about its [...]

Athletes will be allowed to blog at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This is the first time athletes will be allowed to blog their experience. There were some unofficial blogs at previous olympic gaes. The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) guidelines do permit audio or video of events to be used.

The IOC has set out guidelines [...]