• Campbell Brown announces her pregnancy on Sunday's Weekend Today. ABC's Good Morning America to respond with a two-hour special in which Diane Sawyer weeps openly, and announces that her "biological clock is ticking."

• Rupert Murdoch is on the brink of closing deal with the Wall Street Journal. Unfortunately, he's not yet on the brink of getting the requisite Dow Jones' board/Bancroft family approval.

• Things that drive newspaper readers crazy include wet papers, grammatical errors and cartoons that are too pretentious to be funny.

• Microsoft pays well-known tech bloggers to recite its slogan, continues to shun notion that attractive people (or celebrities!) occasionally use their products.

• Novelist Bill Powers is tired of self-promotional celebrities guest-editing magazines. Which is why he'll be guest-editing the September issue of City magazine himself, and has limited his famous fashion designer wife, Cynthia Rowley, to only one interview exclusive.

• Meanwhile, Erika Kawalek, the editor in chief of Isaac Mizrahi's semiannual magazine, plans to write an entire book about…Erika Kawalek's wardrobe.