Tough call: Kwame Kilpatrick , the disgraced mayor of Detroit, who is charged with eight felonies, is surging in search 5,878% after he spent the night in jail for violating his bond by traveling to Canada without alerting the court first. The two-term mayor's naughty text messages on a city-provided pager were released publicly in January. He's been on a short electronic leash (figuratively speaking) ever since. Do or don't? Katie Holmes ,

Posted by great scott! What a day! It's our first Whiteboard Friday interview from our new Whiteboard Studios at Mozplex 2.0 (or the Mozoleum as our guest suggests). Who do we have? None other than our good friend and MSN Live Webmaster Center honcho, Nathan Buggia. As many of you know, Live just released a whole bunch of cool new features for Webmaster Center. Nathan and Rand discuss how these features can help webmasters,

The email newsletter Daily Candy , now going on its eighth year, got a sweet deal this week. Comcast is buying the company for $1.25 million . Rumors were that Comcast would pay far less - around $75 million and it's many times over their revenue. The pithy newsletters focus on what's hip and fashionable - marketing products to young women - and drawing national advertisers. Last year they expanded to include a kid's edition aimed at well keeled moms.

About three years ago Google took on a 5% stake at AOL for a whopping $1 Billion. Today Google is not so sure that the investment was a good choice. While they are not saying the value they believe the investment is worth, they are certainly not pleased by the past decision. "Based on our review, we believe our investment in AOL may be impaired. After consideration of the duration of the impairment,

Let the games begin! The Olympics in Bejing have begun and Tibet monks aren't the only protesters - the media is angry too. While Chinese citizens may not have freedom of the press or Internet, but their Olympic guests expect it. And to be sure, the media was promised they would have full access to web sites. But reports are that not only are sites being blocked but that the government is monitoring Internet activity.

Hi everyone, I wanted to post a friendly reminder that the deadline is nearly upon us for the transition to Version 5.1 of the adCenter API. Version 4 will go off service after August 14th. Please use the community and our support resources, and our support resources for any questions you have in making the transition. We will continue the monthly series of Live Meeting webcasts, with our next session at 1 PM Pacific time on Tuesday, Aug. 19th.

It was a verbal dispute between an airline passenger and a flight attendant. It was a " tantrum " that escalated into racist abuse. Either way, the situation landed a Continental Airlines employee and the co-pastor of one of the country's most prominent megachurches in court??"and in Buzz??"this week. In 2005, Victoria Osteen and her husband, Joel , boarded a plane for Colorado. Once in the cabin, Mrs. Osteen discovered a mysterious, quarter-sized stain on her seat.

The glorious Olympics games are here! Everybody enjoy the sweet-smelling fog that has enveloped Beijing ??" it is all natural and not in any way related to industrial activity. Kindly remove the insulting facemask and enjoy the following news. Or else. Girls Gone Wild Yahoo Style Forrest Gump once mused that "Life is like a box of chocolates ??" you never know what you're gonna get'" Less nauseating but still chocolate boxey,

In response to last week's request by the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee , Yahoo has announced opt-out capability for behavioral targeting. In a letter to Subcommittee Members , the company said it "will offer consumers even greater choice by allowing consumers to decline customized advertising(8) on Yahoo.com. This is in addition to our existing opt-out when Yahoo! serves customized advertising on third party networks.

Following great privacy concerns for online users for many years now, Yahoo is taken another step forward to protect users' web activity. CNNMoney reports , "Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to 33 companies asking detailed questions about how they serve up Web ads to customers and whether they collect or store data on people's Internet searches. In addition toYahoo, the letters went to large companies like Comcast Corp. (CMSCA, CMCSK),