Since the release of the notorious news video featuring rats overrunning a Manhattan KFC/Taco Bell, widely viewed on websites like YouTube, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has stepped up their inspections.

With seven topics ranging from fashion to movies to music, PAPER magazine's blog is a mélange of information. Alexis Swederloff, the associate editor, finds herself consistently surprised by the site.

The newest digital music system allows you to personalize your own radio station to suit your musical tastes. But is this just another fruitless attempt to outdo the iPod?

Eva Chen, beauty & health director at Teen Vogue, blogs about fashion trends, must-have beauty products, health news, and anything else that crosses her mind. The biggest benefit of blogging? Instant feedback from the readers.

Have you ever seen those episodes of Dateline called "To Catch a Predator"? You know, the ones where Chris Hansen lures sexual predators off the Internet by setting up meetings with a 12-year-old girl?

Baltimore can be just as hip as New York. Just ask Brian Lawrence, the editor in chief of Style Magazine.

During our last Digital Journalism: Blogging class, one of my fellow students commented on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper blogs.

“Why does Newsday.com have an Entourage blog? Because I was crazy enough to come up with the idea and the bosses decided to take a shot with me on it. Last August, more than 60,000 people read it. That's crazy.”

Politico reports a sudden development out of Nevada, as Democratic Party organizers there have chosen to cancel a debate they had scheduled in partnership with Fox News Channel.

Among the myriad things the internet has accomplished, surely one of the best is the peeling away of the layers between influential thinkers and their audience.

Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief of Self magazine, blogs to show that even the top editor a major women’s health and well-being magazine isn’t perfect and sometimes gives in to those chocolate cravings, just like every other woman.

I was too young to realize the message behind the Calvin Klein CK One perfume when it came out. I just remember being sprayed with it at department stores and wearing this little silver ring that they gave out as a promotion.

The sitcom-challenged ABC has ordered a pilot about the three cavemen from the hilarious Geico commercials. I fully support this endeavor.

Bob Swanson, also known as the Singing Weatherman, is the assistant weather editor for USA Today. He also contributes to USA Today's weather blog, The Weather Guys.

Fashion editor and blogger? No wonder Suze Yalof Schwartz, executive fashion editor at large at Glamour, thinks she has the coolest job in the world.

France defines "professional journalism," and China takes away one of the easiest blogging tools around.

As the editor of Idol Chatter, a blog about American Idol published on USAToday.com, one of the most significant things Ken Barnes has learned about blogging is how serious his audience takes the subject matter.

Since the new Nielsen System recently began including college students living on their own in their ratings surveys, television networks are refocusing their efforts on the kids on campus.

It seems like the only thing Second Life is good for is wacky ledes--and, you know, discussion of digital and avatar rights.

Student-run sex magazines are storming college campuses. But who wants to bother with a magazine when the internet's options are so much more expansive?