What News Corp doesn’t want you to know about MySpace After News Corp. threatened to sue his publisher if they published his MySpace exposé, journalism student Trent Lapinski sold his story to Valleywag. Below is the condensed version; the full version will follow later today. — Nick

The New Tastemakers At pandora.com visitors are invited to enter the name of their favorite artist or song and to get in return a stream of music with similar “DNA,” in effect a private Internet radio station microtailored to each user’s tastes.

8 more ways to stay single You may have seen the first installment in this series, 8 ways to stay single. This time, in video.

My Two Years At Bryght From Richard Eriksson – Today marks the two-year anniversary since my official start at Bryght, easily the longest full-time job I’ve had, and easily the best.

Peace and Hate – The Submarines The third of four videos Nettwerk Music posted on Revver last night.

The Next Version of Drupal Will Be 5.0! Today the Drupal project entered a code freeze in preparation for the next release. This release has so many new features, including an installer, requirement checking for modules, better administration pages and file structure, a light-weight CCK, inclus

TV Free Burning Man Burning Man 2006 is now in full swing and Current TV is on the Playa and have setup an online television station, TV Free Burning Man. They have been shooting video, doing interviews and uploading a daily show from Black Rock City.

CopyCamp An unconference for artists about the Internet and the challenge to copyright

Cheatsheet: What is Digg? “When I’m talking to clients,” a seemingly well-informed Google employee told me over brunch, “I want to mention Digg. I know it’s something I’m supposed to know about, but I don’t.” No worries. For everyone who needs a refresher on Digg, we have an exhau

Event Photography Inspriation: Ted I’ve been using their conference site as a bit of inspiration about how event photography can be executed and used. They don’t just put a few pictures on their front page. Instead, they make their front page an immersive photographic experience. Every tim

Tara Hunt, Kris Krug and Mike Arrington at Gnomedex 6 ~ The Chris Pirillo Show A collection of three interviews by Alex Williams of Podcast Hotel from Gnomedex 6. This collection starts out in a conversation with Tara Hunt of Citizen Agency. The second conversation is with Kris Krug, talking about what made him decide Read More …

Blogging for Change Contest | ChangeEverything.ca Blog about changing your community, and you could find yourself at Bard on the Beach, courtesy of our Blogging for Change contest!

Is MySpace Safe? The question is not whether MySpace is safe because nothing is. The real issue is whether MySpace can be used safely or whether the risk is too great and we ought to stay away from MySpace altogether.

Open hack day at Yahoo! Continuing on the geek thread, i’d like to invite everyone to Hack Day at Yahoo! on September 29. The way hack days work at Yahoo! is that you come with an idea of how to mashup different tools at Yahoo! and then you hack like mad for 24 hours. It’s Read More …

The Best Canon EOS Lenses Here are the top 20 lenses based on user ratings with no regard to cost

New Canon 50mm Lens I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of the recently announced Canon EF 50mm f1.2L USM lens. One of my favorite lenses in my current arsenal is the 50mm f1.4 lens. It’s a pretty good lens, but its build quality isn’t quite as nice as I’d like.

Laughs abound below the belt Although there are plenty of bawdy jokes in this romantic comedy, Bolloxed is much smarter than you might expect from a play that begins with a man holding his testicles in anguish.

Senator Tim Ryan kicks Bush’s Ass Democrat Tim Ryan from Ohio kicks the Bush Administration ass. He was responding to why young people think the Administration will institute a draft despite their denials.

BarCampEarth: a local report Having literally been there, done that, and got the T-shirt, I can safely say that the quality of the presentations and the chances to make connections are at least as good as at a formal conference that would cost at least 20 or 30 times more to organize