Great news! Facebook profiles are now indexable by the search engines on Google and Yahoo. Which means it will be that much easier for you to stalk track down that guy who "accidentally" wrong-numbered you* and that much simpler for your potential new employer to promptly reject you solely on the basis of your embarrassingly drunk profile picture and your AIM screenname of "TappaKegga." [Webpronews]
*With the rejection hotline
CafeMom, the social networking equivalent of the self-help aisle, has attracted a $5 million investment from Highland Capital Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
With fun groups like Life After Divorce and I Want to Work at Home!!!!!!, who needs Playboy U.?
• How Condoleezza Rice went from the most popular girl in the White House to total social pariah.
• 24 to elect its first female president, much to the dismay of former tv "prez," Geena Davis and Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton.
• Andrew Lloyd Webber to make the leap from writing/producing trashy theatrical productions to writing/producing trashy reality television.
• Second Life makes it easy for unhappy computer nerds to find salvation in…their computers.
• Chicago Sun-Times too become too liberal for Conrad Black's liking.
• Campbell Brown leaves NBC to have babies, work for CNN and "do something besides fill in whenever Brian Williams is on vacay."
• Ever wondered what color Pucci caftan Elle fashion director Nina Garcia wears to the beach? Yeah, neither have we.
• Billionaires continue to duke it out for control of Tribune. It's almost like watching a no-holds-barred Ultimate Fighting Championship except with boring rich guys.
• Diane Sawyer beats out NBC, CBS to score the interview with Dina McGreevey that nobody else wanted.
• "At breakfast yesterday, Dean Baquet looked an awful lot like the next executive editor of the New York Times." Sounds like someone ordered Wheaties!
• The Edwards campaign may have the most Facebook, MySpace friends, but Obama looks "way hotter" in his profile picture.
• The reviews are in on Onion News Network: "Funny to read, not funny to hear from mediocre actors with bad toupees."
• Turns out bullying the Times is not a smart political scheme. [NY Sun]
• Rocketboom finds a new pair of jugs to sit in front of the camera. As for Amanda Congdon? Yeah, she's signed with Endeavor. [ETP, Micro Persuasion]
• Simon Dumenco knows some things for sure — like how he loves when readers spit up their Diet Coke while reading his column. [AdAge]
• When it comes to gay marriage, Hillary Clinton has a canned response ready for ya. [Queerty]
• You mean Times staffers expect to be paid for their work — weeks and months after their original bylines ran? [E&P]
• Meanwhile, Daily News staffers face another dilemma: to blog or not to blog. [Gawker]
• Hey, lady? Everyone is in Dennis Crowley's Dodgeball network. We get more text messages from him than our real friends. [NYT]
