Who knew Red Herring was still around? Green-y Earth2Tech founder (and former Herring writer) Om Malik, that's who. Valleywag reports that he just swiped journalist Adena DeMonte out from under Red Herring. Apparently, he wasn't supposed to do that ever, ever again because Joel Dreyfuss totally, like, told him he so wasn't allowed to poach his staff, ok. more ›

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Rather than give up the act, the JT Leroy crew clings desperately to the blonde wig and sunglasses look at Sundance. Stephanie Tanner from Full House is recovering from a meth addiction, which Dave Coulier could drive anyone to. Thomas Hawk pens an open letter to the folks who don't want any pictures taken of the On the Road manuscript. And if you've ever wanted a DJ Q-Bert plushie, now's your chance to buy one. more ›

Uh-oh, there's drama between The Daly and The Gavster once again -- GavvyGav brings his veto hammer, but Chris throws the recent reconcilliation speech back at him. Speaking of real estate, an Oakland developer wants to mix light industrial and residential in a new West Oakland construction. Google can't avoid politics anymore, turning away FBI requests for information on the one hand and defending their book search against angry publishers on the other. more ›

Om Malik IM'd us today to let us know that in our very own backyard, Marin, we have a regular contributor to the New York Times -- and that she's started a blog. Michelle Slatalla, whom Om says "typically writes about online shopping," can now be found at Michellepedia, where she posts "Stuff I Didn't Have Room to Say." Exactly the kind of thing the New York Times could be doing online to increase the value of its site, but isn't. more ›

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Did you know that America's "first black Millionaire" was Yerba Buena resident Alexander Leidesdorff? Eric Meyerson got a chance to see Nobel Laureate Jimmy Carter at a recent book signing. And the wheels of the criminal justice system continue to squeak, with this harrowing tale of dealing with the Fremont courts. more ›

Two weeks of tech bingeing gives folks time to reflect. Slashdot picks Make Magazine as the best coverage from Macworld. We choose the best rumor -- that Team Jobs didn't announce some products because of "supply issues." Hell, even Levi's announced a product -- iPod compatible jeans. more ›

Ah, nothing like controversy to get the week off to a good start. Susie Bright isn't particularly happy after lending JT her support early on (scroll down for more from Susie in the comments). And Edward Champion reminds us that JT isn't the only one lacking a firm grasp on the line between fact and fiction, with James Frey under the microscope. Municide publishes a response to their own flight of fancy, purportedly from an actual Muni driver. We think the response would be better if we knew it came from a crack-smoking Muni driver with a criminal record and Hollywood friends, but you can't have it all, can you? more ›

1115.org weighs in with their analysis of last night's State of the State, and Capitol Notes' John Meyer takes folks behind the scenes. SF CityScape has high hopes for The City's promotion of interim Planning Director Dean Macris to a permanent post. And San Jose decides they want a city wifi network, too. more ›

The local blogosphere seems to have shaken off their collective hangover, so lots to discuss today. Om Malik pours cold water on the Google PC rumor, points toward Google Video and says "getting warmer." An ever bigger rumor is that Microsoft might swallow Yahoo whole. Meanwhile, Evil Signtist Courtney lauds Google for shouting out Louis Braille on his birthday. And Nivi asks that you "Donate to Wikipedia if You Love Your Mom." Alternately, donate if you love your therapist or your best friend Jim Beam. more ›

We'll start with the 2005 year-in-reviews. Robert Haaland says 2005 "was a great year to be a queer union organizer." Om Malik points out that the number of broadband connections grew 35% last year. And Jenguin literally looks back at 2005 with a selection of her photos. more ›

Tom Foremski defends his opinion that bloggers, and not Bono, Bill and Melinda, should have gotten Time's recent Person of the Year cover. Om Malik realizes that GigaOm's content is being ripped-off, and wonders what he can do about it -- we see this kind of crap all the time, and hope that there's an especially hot place in the afterlife for the perpetrators. Eric Rice gives a video camera to a five year old for Christmas, and the kid is videoblogging in minutes, it's that easy. more ›

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It was a just a couple of days ago while surfing that we started getting weird errors with del.icio.us, and then the whole site crapped out entirely. They said they be back online in an hour, but it was more then five. Whatevs. But you'd think that somebody like Yahoo could make sure that there was 100% uptime after purchasing the software. Oh well. Bump in the road, we guess. more ›

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Some video to amuse you as you kill your Friday afternoon at the office: Schlomo Rabinowitz suggests what . We can't believe it either. more ›

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Ian over at WULAD must have smoked some Ombuds before deconstructing some political graffiti. Dinah Sanders explains her votes in the election -- before a new TV campaign from Herr Governator can get to her. In a mood to protest, but not to get off the couch? The UK brings us two technologies to let folks tele-protest via SMS. more ›

Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn points out that constituents probably don't want their TV's f**ked with by their elected representative. more ›

Arguments begin tomorrow in the MGM v. Grokster case being heard by the Supremes. BoingBoing is all over the story -- pointing out that even the relatively conservative Economist has come down on the side of P2P apps, links to another piece which flays the music industry for misrepresenting the actual costs of swapping songs, and notes that Mark Cuban has even stepped in to fund Grokster's defense. The EFF's Fred van Lohmann will be presenting Grokster's case tomorrow -- check out the EFF for analysis and relevant documents. more ›

It pays to trust Om Malik. Looks like Flickr and Yahoo sittin' in a tree, s-y-n-e-r-g-ee. Funny, because just on Friday we were given some rather discouraging information about the whole thing. Check out the official announcement on the Flickr blog. In the meantime, rumors still circulate about Yahoo's intent to purchase other popular blog softs SixApart and Technorati. more ›

Adding some gravitas to the rumors flying around the world that Yahoo intends to purchase Flickr, Om Malik is reporting that the deal may have already been sealed and that Yahoo is waiting to announce on March 1st. Michael Copeland reported the following in Business 2.0 back in January: more ›

The ghost of Malcolm Gladwell has come to haunt Silicon Valley tastemakers. You know those schwag-bags you're always hearing about on Defamer? It's all part of massaging the 'Connectors,' the folks of style and influence who supposedly have more to do with wildfire word-of-mouth sales than the rest of us schmucks. more ›

With MSN Spaces and Blogger's assimilation into Google, SixApart had to make a move for marketshare, and this would sure be a great one. LiveJournal is a rich pool of relatively tech-naive but enthusiastic content generators ripe for the milking, and MoveableType doesn't crimp the anti-establishment cachet like Microsoft or Google might. Oohoooh, what a little V.C. can doohoooh... more ›