• Conrad Black celebrates the start of his fraud trial by holing up at the Ritz Carlton.

• Two LA Times Pulitzer finalists nominated themselves. When questioned about it, they haughtily remarked, "well somebody had to do it!"

• With the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit heating up, Google suddenly needs to hook up with one of the "popular" media kids.

• Not just anyone can emulate The Economist's overly expensive and "aggressively boring" style!

• Will the publisher of Cookie join the leagues of Conde Nasters jumping to Reader's Digest? Who cares, you only read Teen Vogue, anyway.

• Stuff for sale! No, seriously, Stuff. As well as Maxim, Blender…