“Political satire program The Chaser’s War on Everything has catapulted the ABC into the ratings records in the wake of its APEC motorcade stunt last weekend.”

“For the first time in federal election history the battle for the hearts and minds of young voters is being waged online. The “YouTube election” kicked off in a big way…”

“Content Robot has introduced iWPhone, a plug in that automatically generates an iPhone-compatible version of WordPress-based sites.”

“…report came out of the U.K. today stating that Facebook is costing the U.K. firms over $260 million a day.While I don’t consider this report to be completely accurate, the bottom line is that Facebook has a significant opportunity cost deficit.”

“Since launching its application platform, Facebook attention has grown over 50%.” (MySpace is down, but still a long way ahead!)

“YouTube now accounts for 28% of total minutes spent on Google worldwide and an astounding 35% of global users. According to JMP Securities analyst William Morrison’s analysis of Comscore data.”

… a software firm is suing [an Australian] community website over comments published on its message board. The firm, 2Clix, is suing the owner of the popular broadband community site Whirlpool, Simon Wright, for “injurious falsehood”, asking for $150,00

On US Troops blogging the Iraq Occupation: “The toothpaste is out of the tube. And, try as they might, the military’s information nannies are not going to be able to stuff it back in,” [Via]

Stephen Downes’ how-to on setting up Mozilla Subird (an open-source calandering tool).

“The new film in the franchise is called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. What is this, Harry Potter – or is Damien Hirst involved?”

“Having a huge network of online buddies does not mean you have any more close friends than the rest of us, a British researcher said on Monday.” (Will Reader, an evolutionary psychologist at Sheffield Hallam University.)

“Six Apart, creators of TypePad and Movable Type, would like to use the iPhone and the iPod touch for content publishing, too. They announced today the release of a mobile version of their TypePad blogging application, customized for the iPhone.”

What’s hot (and hot means lots of edits) in the last hour, day, week or month? That’s what wikirage can tell you.

“A day after it cut the price of its top-of-the-line iPhone, Apple said today that it would offer a $100 store credit to customers who had bought one at the full price of $599.”

“Thousands of Facebook members are on the warpath after the social networking site removed images of breastfeeding mums and banned others for posting “obscene content”. They call themselves “lactivists” and say Facebook’s practices are discriminatory.”

The case of one singing sensation would pretended to be a YouTube discovery, but had actually signed a recording contract before the Tube: “the gotcha moment doesn’t always lead to your demise — if you do it right, it becomes part of your legend.”

Monopolistic lock-in tactics married to mega-corporate coffee franchising, all in the name of a few more tunes on your iPhone. (Or: Apple, we like our music evil!)

“Looks like Amazon.com is the big winner in the NBC vs. iTunes spat: NBC has decided that its content will appear on Unbox, Amazon’s digital video download service.” (This includes Heroes and Battlestar Galactica.)

“The only question is: how long will paying customers stay when the companies they’re buying from treat them as attackers?”

If a Second Life machinima was nominated for an Oscar, that’d certainly bring a more mainstream focus and respect for machinima productions!

“Australians are thumbing their noses at Apple’s 2008 launch date for the iPhone, importing the device from the US and hacking it to work on local networks. The hacks, unveiled just over a month ago and extensively documented online…”

Henry Jenkins debunks eight key misconceptions about videogames, from ‘games are for boys’ thorugh to ‘videogames make players more violent’.