“Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.”

An interesting take on Cloverfield (JJ Abrams’ hand-held Godzilla in New York film) being the closest of a September 11 film to date (both due to the level of destruction, and the way it’s shot).

Mashup of Hillary Clinton’s run in the democratic primaries juxtaposed against Reese Witherspoon’s remarkably similar character from the film Election. A lovely mashup!

They’ve found a way to make yeast live ten times its normal lifespan, and now the question is whether a similar alteration might work on humans! (Seriously, though, who’s going to retire at 65 when they need 725 years of superannuation?)

“… the Doctor is more likely to overthrow the government on alien planets, or in the distant future. When he visits present-day Earth or our history, he’s an arch-conservative.” (Compares Doctor’s politics withe those of the UK party in power.)

A lovely booklet which details a lot of case studies in which Creative Commons licenses are meaningfully used in Asian countries and Australia. (The PDF is about 10Mb, but well worth a read.)

“After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, Random House, they’ve agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You can download the book for free.”

“Forget Lonelygirl15, YouTube’s 2006 online video phenom. Professors are the latest YouTube stars. … Web video opens a new form of public intellectualism to scholars looking to participate in an increasingly visual culture.”

Mary Poppins as a horror film … a really good trailer! (An oldie but a goodie!)

The intriguingly story of Arash Derambarsh, a 28 year old French man, who convinced the French press that he was the elected ‘President of Facebook’! After many serious big-media interviews, the hoax was eventually uncovered.

“Resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging for themselves and/or their students.” (A long list of great resources.)

How a single YouTube video got a response from Australia’s Foreign Minister and opened relatively fresh wounds on the topic of racism in Australia, with a protest about Japanese whaling policies thrown into the mix!

How a well-known military blogger, Major Andrew Olmsted, got the final word after he was killed in Iraq but got a friend to post his pre-prepared goodbye via his blog.

Can webisodes make money? A Western Australian perspective: “The first point is: People are already making money from creating webisodes.”

New report from the Centre for Social Media. Looks at the uses, motivation and challenges in using material currently under copyright in participatory media. US-centric in its looks at fair use, et al, but still an interesting read.

The companion website for Axel Bruns’ much anticipated Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. Already lots of bits worth reading!

In their worst ever re-writing of their own universe’s history, Spider-Man makes a deal with the Devil and was never married (nor revealed his identity to the world). Seriously: worst retcon ever.

“Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr said the government had cancelled RQF because it was fundamentally flawed. “The RQF is poorly designed, administratively expensive and relies on an impact measure that is unverifiable and ill-d

A scene by scene remake of Star Wars shot in 1977 on Super8 film!

“… One of the reasons that Heroes (and other NBC shows) shot to the top of this list is that NBC decided to sever their relationship with iTunes last year, meaning you couldn’t zap these over to your iPod at $1.99 a pop. …”

“64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004. Girls continue to dominate most elements of content creation. Some 35% of all teen girls blog…”

“An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for “purposes of interrogation,” the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed Tuesday. … the blogger, Fouah al-Farhan, was “being questioned about specific violations of nonsecurity laws.””

Last year, Stacy Snyder, 25, was dismissed from the student teaching program at a nearby high school and denied her teaching credential after the school staff came across her photograph on her MySpace profile.

Lawrence Lessig corrects some misunderstandings held by ASCAP(American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ) in their recent stance on CC licenses.

“Illegal downloads of videos continue to grow, with Australians increasingly pirating new US shows well before they ran downunder. … Television series Heroes was last year’s most popular television program with 2,439,154 downloads”