Due to their informal, uncontrolled nature, blogs are likely to have a significant social impact during the next presidential election. It's going to be a fun, wild ride.

So it finally happened. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes finally had their baby. All of the speculation can finally stop. Now it's time for all of the media hype to start.

Facebook rolled out two new features last week. Facebook Mobile allows members to text the site for information like phone numbers and email addresses.

As I sit on my bed tonight flipping through the channels, I come across the bloated face of the biggest liar on the planet right now, Barry Bonds.

One day after New York Times editor Bill Keller declared that the Pulitzer Prize judges had awarded “journalism that demonstrated the press standing up to power,” conservative pundits fired back that the stories were not courageous, but treasonous.

In our uber technological world, where new gadgets pop up ever day, the collective American attention span is approaching that of a houseplant. We need our info fast and we need everywhere, including, according to NBC, at the gas station.

I know I made fun of the rules on Rosie's blog, but after typing a long response to Ivan's recent entry, I realized it needed to become a separate post. He wrote:

I hate to love this show. And you may be thinking, yeah, a monkey could play this game and potentially win a million bucks. Not exactly.

As if it wasn’t bad enough that you might not get that fabulous job because of a handful of un-PC comments on your MySpace, now you can get tossed in the slammer for posting your answer to the above question online.

You’ve probably seen them, on bus stops, billboards, web ads -- pretty much everywhere. Attempting to catch the eye of the consumer, AT&T has released its new multi-billion dollar marketing plan.

These days, you can go on the Internet and find a blog about Africa, or turn on your TV and find the BBC. Yet, China has prohibited TV and radio stations from using international news coverage from foreign news sources.

In a recent letter to Romenesko, Philadelphia News reporter David Sullivan refuted a claim made by Miami Herald editor Tom Fielder stating that people work in the journalism environment because they love presenting the news.

The Reuters website will soon include blogs alongside news articles. The blog entries will come from Global Voices Online, an international blog network coordinated by Harvard University.

A study has shown the negative consequences of the media, including television, the Internet and video games, on young children and teenagers. It’s no news that our lives are constantly and powerfully affected by the media. And its negative affects aren’t surprising either.

Monday's episode of Rocketboom was a feature devoted to TVTonic an attempt to merge television and video blogs into the internet channel.

Poor Howard Stern. Millions of his fans have disappeared ever since he moved from free to Sirius satellite broadcasting.

Could it really be true? Does one network, a stodgy behemoth of media conglomeration, actually *gulp* get it?

My days of citywide exams are over; meanwhile my little brother is thrown into the "Communication Age" of test preparation. He and his peers have a website built for them to look up test results, take practice tests in specific areas, and provide test taking tips.

In the latest of media-related scandals, Michael Douglas claims he was misquoted by GQ writer Jeanne Marie Laskas. GQ is sticking by its writer, saying that Douglas is the one who made the mistake here.

MySpace is to hire Microsoft’s director of Consumer Security Outreach & Child Safe Computing next month, in response to the recent controversy surrounding the site and child safety.