Rush Hour

FishbowlLA: Major layoffs may affect hundreds of employees at Myspace

All Things Digital: AOL purchases two local startups; Going.com and Patch Media, which was owned by new AOL CEO Tim Armstrong

ASSME: Matt Drudge’s first internet postings are pretty skeevy

CNet: Virgin is launching a pay-as-you go mobile broadband service

Galleycat: The 2009 edition of the AP stylebook includes an entry about Twitter

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BayNewser: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone gave Oprah’s production team a crash course in Tweeting

AskArt.com: Holocaust Museum gunman James Von Brunn posted paintings on the internet

CNN: According to the Global Language Monitor, “Web 2.0″ is the millionth word in the English language

FishbowlNY: Jewish online magazine Tablet launches

Mashable: KFC is giving Myspace users a chance to win a lifetime supply of fried chicken

FishbowlNY: Rupert Murdoch says print newspapers will be no more within ten years

Gawker: Nigerian Internet scammers are targeting the unemployed

CNet: T-Mobile says someone who posted to a security e-mail list this weekend claiming to have hacked their computer network was lying

Galleycat: The COOL-ER e-book reader is making a splash in the literary world

Silicon Alley Insider: Nicholas Carlson shows off pictures of a massive print version of Wikipedia

Mashable: Apple announces their newest mobile phone; the iPhone 3g S

AgencySpy: G4′s Olivia Munn and SNL’s Jason Sudeikis are hosting an hour-long, variety show-style live ad for Microsoft’s Bing search engine on Hulu tonight

TechCrunch: TechCrunch founder/co-editor Michael Arrington says the New York Times unfairly criticized his journalistic chops

Valleywag: Digg goes down during the keynote speech at Apple’s developer conference

FishbowlLA: Ashton Kutcher goes to Twitter to express his rage at the jailing of American journalists in North Korea

TechCrunch: Growth on the video site Hulu is dropping off

CNet: Since last year people in the U.S. are spending 83% more time on social networking sites

Mashable: President Obama will broadcast his Cairo speech via text message

BayNewser: Former newspaper analyst Lauren Rich Fine tells Beet.tv that papers can charge for premium content but not basic news

FishbowlNY: Panelists at an I Want Media event say they rely heavily on Twitter for news aggregation

TechCrunch: San Francisco launches a 311 complaints and information service on Twitter

Silicon Alley Insider: How to read the Wall Street Journal online for free

FishbowlNY: Live from Mediabistro Circus– What’s next for digital publishing

FishbowlDC: Pollster.com unveils a new redesign

Mashable: Sea World is starting a major social media marketing campaign

Wall Street Journal: Many homeless people have internet connections out on the streets

FishbowlNY: Ad Age’s Simon Dumenco criticizes Syracuse University’s journalism school for giving an award to Arianna Huffington since she doesn’t pay most writers at the Huffington Post

MediaJobsDaily: Datwon Thomas is launching the hip hop news site GlobalGrind.com with backing from Russell Simmons

Urlesque: New Yorkers party dressed as their favorite Internet memes

FishbowlLA: Julie Zidel makes embroidered versions of her favorite celebrity tweets

Daily Intel: CNN host Larry King says he has a ghostwriter to update his “Twicker — what do they call it?” page

The Atlantic: Newspaper publishers discuss monetizing their digital content at a hush-hush meeting outside of Chicago

TechCrunch: HuffPo’s Arianna Huffington says digital publishers shouldn’t try to improve online revenues with pay walls, because subscriptions aren’t viable “unless you’re selling porn”

BayNewser: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would be the first justice of the nation’s highest court with a history of rulings on digital issues

FishbowlNY: Mediabistro’s Rebecca Fox gives her take on the hubbub over Gawker’s True Blood ad campaign

TechCrunch: Facebook accepts $200 million of funding at a $10 billion valuation from Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies

BayNewser: How journalists screwed up the Twitter TV show story

FishbowlLA: Reddit modifies their logo to reflect sadness over today’s ruling upholding the ban on gay marriage in California

MediaJobsDaily: MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka theorizes that the decline of the newspaper industry coincided with the rise of Craigslist

Mashable: A list of the top Youtube and video memes of all time

Wall Street Journal: Investors are eating up shares of restaurant reservation site OpenTable in the company’s IPO today

TVNewser: 60 Minutes newsman Morley Safer says he “would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery”

Mashable: Justin.tv would like you to know that its users upload more video on average than YouTubers

FishbowlNY: Former Portfolio magazine media blogger Jeff Bercovici has a new gig at DailyFinance.com

PC Magazine: It hasn’t been in the headlines much since April, but the Conficker virus is still infecting approximately 50,000 PC’s every day