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I have been a fan of Fox’s “24” for a solid 3 seasons. It’s great drama filled with politics, cultural clashes, twisted character relationships and (above all) a sexy stud of a lead: Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland). But...

Internet hotspots (You Tube, MySpace, etc) are becoming catalogs of history, media, and art. In other words: one stop inspiration by cultural iconography from all ages.

Last week MTV Networks cut 5.5% of its workforce. While the deepest cuts were in affiliate sales and marketing, the channels MTV2, VH1 Classic and the now nixed MTV World had some significant blood loss.

Perna’s outraged critique of O’Keefe’s drawing goes so far as to deem the whole paper racist.

Camel's latest marketing campaign is all about the ladies. I was flipping through a magazine yesterday when I came across an advertisement I hadn't seen before.

Maybe you’ve seen the ads around the city. The Love. The Ambition. The Power. But since A&E has started showing syndicated episodes of HBO’s The Sopranos, it’s more about The Youth.

So, I missed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind over at Pioneer and thought my night would be ruined.

Not even Google is safe from the snarky comments of Gawker. I personally love how Google personalizes its website based on the day. It brings a little joy to going and researching for school or work.

While we're on the Marcotte story, let's take a look at last night's O'Reilly Factor. (YouTube link here)

The Edwards campaign has just announced that liberal blogger Amanda Marcotte has resigned her position with the organization, and it is a great day for American politics.

When blogs turn corporate, it's nothing too new. But recently 1010Wins reported on fashion blogs disguised as blogs that are new marketing tools for the industry.

Turns out Elizabethtown really is just a fiasco. One of my favorite film/music/book review sites, The AV Club, also plays host to one of my favorite blogs, and this is a big part of what makes it so good.

This week in New York Magazine, the cover story was our societies new generation's privacy, or lack there of.

The Associated Press and NowPublic.com, have joined ranks to spread another level of journalism.

Anna Nicole Smith's death has been anything but normal or sacred and so are the way fans are expressing their emotions.

Newly Oscar-nominated star of "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore has teamed up with British billionaire Richard Branson to stop global warming.

The Greensboro News & Record keeps 14 staff blogs.

Anna Nicole coverage trumps that of the war. An interesting breakdown of how media outlets handled coverage of both the war and Anna's death on Thursday after the jump.

With the ever-increasing prominence of blogging as a news form, its implications in the political world become all the more crucial.

That's the $475 Million Question.