Saturday, April 15, 2006

Hey, Hey, It's Michael Nesmith. The Monkees catapulted him to stardom, but he's come a long way, baby. The Grammy-winning film producer and musician who invented MTV talks about digital music, MySpace and corporate media. Wired News interview by Jason Silverman. [Wired News: Top Stories] I was thinking he was dead, but I guess that's Michael O'Donoghue. 11:25:00 AM    comment []

Karaoke Revolution for Idol?. American Idol may put another notch in its branding belt. Plus: Blizzard blitzes World of Warcraft cheaters. In Game|Life. [Wired News: Top Stories] 11:24:57 AM    comment []

UK took part in Iran war games. Pentagon planned for Tehran conflict with mock invasion involving UK troops. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:32:51 AM    comment []

Ahmadinejad insulted by SMS, starts purge. A Chequer-board of Days and Nights quotes a Guardian story reporting that: According to whispered accounts in the Iranian capital, his ire was stirred when someone sent him a joke suggesting he didn't wash regularly enough. ... An anti-regime website called Rooz Online claims that under the crackdown the head of the country's mobile phone company has been sacked and four people arrested and accused of colluding with the Israeli foreign intelligence service, Mossad. [Pajamas Media] 9:32:45 AM    comment []