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You watch "Skating with the Stars." He watches "The Sopranos." Can the two of you share a lasting love?

Television preferences may not be the ultimate predictor of a successful union, but anyone who's ever snuggled up to a partner for an hour of "Lost"--or "Wife Swap"--knows the bliss of a shared tube mindset.

Enter TiVo's San Francisco Valentine's Day mixer, where singles will get matched according to their TiVo wish lists. "You can tell a lot about a person from the TV shows they watch!&… Read more

An Internet property scramble was going on this week in Europe as companies rushed to bid for ownership in the new .eu domain name space, according to Agence France Presse. And, not surprisingly, the most popular application was for "sex.eu," the wire service reported. Eurid, the nonprofit group appointed by the European Commission, was accepting applications for .eu domain names. They are not expected to replace country domains like .fr for France, but to "offer the possibility of a pan-European identity in cyberspace," the article said.

I'm an Enron junkie.

I have listened to the unabridged audio book of Kurt Eichenwald's "Conspiracy of Fools" more times than anyone should admit to in print. I've read other books as well and, of course, have seen the Enron movie.

Today, I finally got a chance to catch up on the trial of former chiefs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling.

Sure, I'd read the daily news stories, but I wanted the gossip, the behind-the-scenes stuff--basically all the minutia. What I'd really like is a Webcam so that I could throw caution (and … Read more

A new survey finds that 5 percent of American workers maintain personal blogs and only 15 percent of their employers have a policy directly addressing blogging activities.

The Employment Law Alliance, a practice of employment lawyers, conducted the telephone survey of 1,000 adults last month. The survey also found that of the workers whose companies have blogging policies, 62 percent say the policy prohibits posting any employer-related information and 60 percent say the policy discourages employees from criticizing or making negative comments about the company.

Meanwhile, most of those surveyed think employers should be allowed to discipline or fire … Read more

In an interview with Newsweek, News Corp honcho Rupert Murdoch said he'll announce a $1 billion plan later this month for adding broadband satellite Internet access to his DirecTV service.

Along with that service, his MySpace investment, and other Net sites, he expects to have a "conservative" $1 billion in Internet revenues by 2010, he told the magazine.

His Fox network will be distributing shows online, but for now he says he's not impressed with Apple Computer's iTunes video store.

"How many people really want to get video on a tiny screen when they … Read more

Over on ZDNet Blogs, Richard MacManus interviews Digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss the popularity of the site, which he says has begun to rival Slashdot in popularity among IT geeks. Unlike Slashdot, though, where the content is controlled by editors, Digg prides itself on being run by its community.

Take a look at the interview, in which Rose talks about Digg's battle with spammers, its recent issues with GroupThink and upcoming personalization features.

A school in the central California town of Gilroy -- best known for its garlic festival -- is barring students from accessing the popular teen social networking Web site MySpace.com. South Valley Middle School Principal John Perales says he decided to block access to My Space on school computers after a student complained about being cyber-bullied via the Web site, according to a CBS online news article. When the principal logged on to the site he says he was shocked to find profanity and nudity just clicks away. Welcome to the Internet, Principal Perales.

In the latest embarrassing chapter in the James Frey mea culpa saga, the "A Million Little Pieces" author and his publisher on Wednesday said they would be adding notes to future versions of the book acknowledging Frey's embellishments to his nonfiction memoir.

According to the Associated Press, Frey's note, as well as Random House's note (Click here for PDF) are also now posted on the publisher's Web site.

"I didn't initially think of what I was writing as nonfiction or fiction, memoir or autobiography," Frey wrote in his note (Click here … Read more

We already know, of course, that politicians live primarily for re-election and typically view the truth as an impediment to the higher purpose of unfettered self-aggrandizement.

Still, we can be excused for feeling mildly nauseated when fresh confirmation of this distasteful aspect of modern politicking surfaces.

The latest episode appeared last week in the form of a report that aides to Rep. Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, deleted references to his broken term-limits pledge and massive campaign war chest on Wikipedia.

Then the trusty editors at Wikipedia got together and compiled a list of over 1,000 edits made by … Read more