• Cathy Black tells a joke, then hopes nobody caught it. [AdAge]
• Hachette Fillipacchi’s Elle.com is ready to take on Style.com. If they succeed, we’ll have a website that’s at least barely worth reading. [WWD]
• The SEC promises to deliver “clear principles” for future subpoenaing of journalists. It just won’t be clear on what those principles might be. [AP]
• People.com lags, Epicurious.com gains, and ELLEgirl.com and TeenVogue.com proved teenage girls are doing more than posting PG-13 photos of themselves on MySpace. [MIN]
• Maxim resigns publisher Rob Gregory for two years as the magazine hits its 100th issue. Did we mention ad sales were down this quarter? [WWD]
• Our passive-agressive relationship with blogs continues. [National Journal]
