MySpace, NBC recruit citizen journalists

One small step for a citizen journalinst, one giant leap for citizen journalism kind. "Citizen journalists, MySpace and NBC News want you to help cover this summer's political conventions. MySpace, NBC News and MSNBC.com are running a contest among MySpace users for the job...

A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country

Yay for citizen journalism. Always carry a camera people, always. Click through to view the photo, I don't want to steal it. "What a picture. When the weather turned violent and stormy on Tuesday evening, Lori Mehmen, who lives in the small farming town of Orchard in...

Web 2.0 living on borrowed money

RuhRoh. "The bad news? While a few startup stars like Twitter and Slide can get venture cash on little or no revenue, the expiration date on your "it's [blank] with a social network layer" pitch may be well past. "There is going to be a shake-out here in the next year or...

Nude photos of new French First Lady, Carla Bruni, to be auctioned

Now this is an auction that I'd attend. She is the perfect woman. "A nude photo of France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will be auctioned off at a sale next month in New York City, an auction house said.The image was taken by photographer Michel Comte in 1993, when...

Spitzer paid $750 an hour, not $5,000

I was thinking about quitting my day but with the emergence of these most recent details I'm reconsidering. "It's so annoying when inaccurate figures are repeated so often that they become settled data points. A case in point: it's now widely assumed that Eliot Spitzer, the...