Hold on to your hats, this is a show you won't want to miss. BB6er and Allstar Jedi Howie Gordon joins us tonight taking your calls. What a way to get us pumped for the upcoming season of Big Brother with none other than Big Boy Howie!! live feeds | Big Brother | Howie Gordon | reality tv | Big Brother 11.

Twitter is all about facilitating conversations, but until you’re following some people, it’s just a blank page. Once you find people to follow and talk to, however, Twitter becomes exceptionally useful. You can share thoughts, ask questions, get updates about news, music, brands, and businesses, and discover helpful links and information.

FriendFeed , the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by GMail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users were saying about any topic across blogs, Twitter, delicious and other diverse social media sites.

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!.

Blogger meetups and tweetups are becoming acceptable forums for people with common interests to come together, share ideas and build meaningful relationships. With this year’s Cisco Live! User Conference located in San Francisco and the massive blogger community based in the Bay Area, we decided to get into the meetup and tweetup mix.

[. . . ] Finally, I try to reread a great blog post by Chris Brogan on a regular basis, titled “You’re Doing it Wrong. ” [. . . ].

Lori Drew, the woman convicted of using a hoax MySpace profile to harass a teenage girl to the point of suicide, was acquitted by a Los Angeles judge on Thursday, Wired reported. Judge George Wu overturned Drew's guilty verdict, which was issued in November , saying that if Drew had.

If you call me at 2:00 pm to schedule a 3:00 pm interview, and your announcement is actually important enough that I want to take the call, and if we both understand that 3:00 to 3:30 pm is the only block of time left in the whole day that actually works for both of us, make damn sure your exec will actually be available at 3:00 to 3:30.

Star Wars in a Notebook! Well, maybe not "annotated" as much as "done in a notebook. " This video is part of the annual Star Wars fan film contest hosted by Atom, and you likely know many of the entries since they've shown up on TR at one point or another: the Star Sports video, the Death Star over San Francisco , that one where the girls strip each other with lightsabers , and a few mo...

Shownotes: We heard about gdgt last year when Peter Rojas and Ryan Block announced it and have been looking forward to finding out exactly what it’ll be. Now we know. It’s a cross between social network, wikipedia and a database.

Doug Gross / CNN : Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran   —  (CNN) — Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.

A number of advertising companies like Google and AOL have agreed to allow Internet surfers to opt out of targeted advertising from their companies by signing on with the Network Advertising Initiative. And Congress has begun drafting new legislation to give consumers more control over the data that Internet companies collect from them for targeted advertising purposes.

The grim jobs number wasn't the only scary thing in today's BLS report. Here's the rate of wage change over the past three months, expressed as an annual rate: Bear in mind that inflation usually runs below the rate of wage change, thanks to productivity growth.

After months of dismal unemployment numbers, this morning’s continued growth in the unemployment rate from 9. 4% in May to 9. 5% for the month of June reinforces the fact that the U. S. is still very much in the midst of recession.

Whether you want to target politicians, your employers, or companies that have done you wrong, there are a variety of sites across the Web that will help you voice your complaints. But beware that not all of them will actually solve those problems.

According to a report today from the BBC , Iranians are able to text message one another for the first time since the day before the presidential elections. SMS service, which political dissidents had used to spread messages and organize protests, has been restricted since June 11, causing many Iranians to use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social sites to broadcast and communicate.

I was reading this article of Robert’s today and for the first time in awhile, discovered that he and I agreed on something! Scoble is of the opinion that Twitter has little value in the long-term value arena.

If you upload videos to YouTube and feel restricted by the 1GB limit, YouTube now offers 2GB of wiggle room as well as the ability to directly link to and embed high definition video. To share a link that points directly to the HD version of a video, tack on "&hd=1" to the end of the URL.

Facebook: With its leadership as an online social network more secure, Mark Zuckerberg's company aims to build both revenues and an enduring presence on other sites – no easy task.

Like the iPhone, but for guys… get it? Better than the lame pun name, below is a Spike TV Guys’ Choice Awards iPhone commercial parody for the “GiPhone. ” I don’t want to spoil the joke, but most of the apps involve boobs in one way or another.