• DirecTV announces Project MyWorld, a TV show in which three young girls search for their MySpace friends in the real world. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, start your engines. [Mashable]
  • Marketwatch's Bambi Francisco interviews Digg co-founder Jay Adelson (you know, the one who's not Kevin Rose) about his and Kevin's new venture, Revision3. Ten points for carefully rehearsed enunciation, Bambi! [WSJ, no sub required]
  • As blogger Kevin Marks says, nothing must be added to Foxtrot's comic strip about Web 2.0. [Epeus]
  • Oh yeah, Apple is gonna trademark the word "podcast." What. The. Hell. Steve? [Inquirer and Bit-tech]
  • CrunchBiz, the newest title from the TechCrunch blog network, went prematurely live today with some blank test posts after the bloggers at Supr.c.ilio.us outed it. Now the site (which is the B2B-centric blog I thought would launch last week) displays a South Park splash image, which is sadly the coolest thing we'll ever see on it. Love the favicon though. [Supr.c.ilio.us and CrunchBiz]
  • Tony Brummel finally repents of his petulant e-mail to Apple honcho Steve Jobs. [Idolator]
  • Mom, I got in Slate (and the Journal)! Writer Daniel Gross explains why Yahoo's short-notice forced Christmas vacation (which we revealed here) is an "idiotic" cost-cutting measure in light of the money this company throws around daily. [Slate]
  • Intel's CEO says YouTube, not satisfied with shelling out about two million dollars a month in bandwidth costs, will eventually go to high-definition. Speaking at the Intel Whatever-the-hell Forum today, Paul Otellini goes on to say that YouTube is inspiring technology to move videos from the computer to TV. When was the last time you and your family curled up in the living room for a good hour of Lonelygirl15? [Bit-Tech]