After demonstrating how easy it is to hack into others' MySpace accounts, a hacker discovers the site has suspended his MySpace profile. I think we call that "hacked on your own petard." [NewScientistTech]

"The news business is like the tobacco business: you want to reach new readers at as young and impressionable an age as possible," Onion president Sean Mills said. "MySpace was, of course, a natural partner in that regard." The truth hurts and causes lung cancer: MySpace and satiricial news publication The Onion are now exclusive content partners. [Infectious Greed]

Everyone's fave former magazine editor turned MySpace cult leader (today: her relationship with God!) is looking for an intern. Do you have what it takes to get a "stipend" from the 'Toos?

Now that News Corp. appears to have locked up Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, every journalist on the planet is volunteering to be an unpaid consultant to Rupert Murdoch. I'm sure he appreciates the free advice. The News Corp. CEO is so known for taking it, after all. First up, there's Kara Swisher's tabloid-headlined call for more "promiscuity," which I was about to get behind. Talk about a paper that needs sexing up! But then I discovered that the word, in Swisher's hands, has gone entirely limp. Her deflated meaning?

Kara Swisher notes that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch quietly confirmed a rumor: His company's talks with Yahoo about swapping MySpace for a large stake in the online portal were real, but derailed by Terry Semel's departure from the CEO spot at Yahoo. [AllThingsD.com]

Newsweek, from 3,000 miles away, bills TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's parties as "harder to get into than Studio 54 in its heyday." So much for the periodical's vaunted factchecking: I waltzed right in. And the scene? Last Friday's TechCrunch9 was, at heart, the same meet-and-greet that takes place several times a week somewhere between San Francisco and San Jose. Except on steroids. A reported 900 people showed up on the Sand Hill Road patio of August Capital to schmooze, deal, and — oh, yes — sucking up to Arrington in the hopes of a mention on his site.

"Is Facebook to MySpace as Google was to Yahoo?" — Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang [Tech Trader Daily]

"MySpace has identified more than 29,000 registered sex offenders on its social network." [Ad Age]

An actual radio listener says that this morning on WNYC, Wonkette founder and current Washington editor for Time.com Ana Marie Cox hinted that she might be one of the hosts of MySpace's Presidential Town Halls, those attempts to "engage" young people in the political process. (Good luck with that!) Anyway, they'll be visiting college campuses this fall. The kids can even submit questions via MySpace instant messenger! And watch the MySpace webcast! Fancy! Cox, we hear, will most likely be hosting along with the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, who writes the politics blog The Fix for WP's website. He's not quite as pretty as Ana, and probably doesn't hate Eric Alterman as much, but we suppose he'll do. Calls to MySpace were not returned.

Israeli blogger Orli Yakuel has posted Information Architects' Tokyo subway-style map of the incestuous, hyperconnected world of Web 2.0. No surprise: Facebook is at the center, MySpace on the periphery. [Flickr]

Ostensibly, MySpace was trying to highlight its MySpace TV video channels with this release. One slight hitch: The "Hott4Hill" video is also posted on YouTube, where it's gotten 600,000 views. And on MySpace TV? 1,400. Ouch. Even "Hott4Hill", on her MySpace profile, embeds a YouTube video, not the MySpace version.

Glossy music magazine Blender has named Apple CEO Steve Jobs to the top of the Powergeek 25, its list of the top 25 people who influence online music. We don't object to the content of the list, but we do object to the title. His Steveness is no geek! And neither are flashy MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson nor suave Youtubers Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The only recognizable geek on there is Bram Cohen of BitTorrent, at number 19. The rest are either techies, hipsters, or businesspeople. Someone at Blender should read up on their definitions.

Facebook PR chief Brandee Barker chatting happily with MySpace PR head Dani Dudeck at Fortune's iMeme conference. And this right after MySpace slammed Facebook in a press release?

In the midst of all the buzz over Facebook (It's the new Internet! They're going IPO!), MySpace tries to remind the world through a press release that it's still the world's most-used social site, getting 200% more visitors than "the closest competitor." In fact, the company dubiously claims that one in four Americans (that's almost the entire U.S. population aged 6-24) used the site last month.

Time has deigned to inform the public of the 5 Worst Websites on the Internet. Yes, the same magazine that named YOU the Person of the Year in 2006 is telling you the five sites to avoid. But first, we'll add a sixth to the list: Time.com, for wasting so many expensively edited words on five websites that clearly don't deserve them. After the jump, we read Time's list so you don't have to.

With many of the large American online advertisers acquired in recent months, Fox International Channels, a subsidiary of News Corp, turned its attention last week to ClickDiario, "one of the largest online advertising networks specializing in Spanish-speaking audiences." The acquisition of ClickDiario will provide Fox access to "25 million unique users per month." So what's the problem? ClickDiario is regarded as an abusive spammer throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe isn't worried that users might be troubled by Rupert Murdoch's ownership of the site, since most of them are too uninformed to realize that News Corp. actually has anything to do with it. [Independent]

Meet Brad Greenspan, the 34-year-old L.A. player who won't be the next owner of Dow Jones but, since there's not a lot of other news going on concerning Rupert Murdoch's close-to-inevitable takeover of the company, is probably worth a quick profile. Greenspan was a co-founder of MySpace (although, the Times reports, "there are fundamental disagreements over his role in the company, as there are over other aspects of his career") and objected to News Corp.'s acquisition of the social networking site, claiming (presciently) that the company was worth far more than the bid accepted. Greenspan's something of a character, and even though My Cock has a better chance of buying the Wall Street Journal than he does (it's bidding $63 a share with guarantees of balls-off full editorial independence policy), there's something fairly charming about his cranky episodes.

Wendi Deng, wife of Rupert Murdoch, named chief of strategy for MySpace China, expected to join MySpace co-founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe on board. [Forbes]

The Times examines the agreement between Rupert Murdoch and the Dow Jones board to protect the editorial independence of the Wall Street Journal: News Corp. would need the committee's approval to hire or fire editors. News Corp. and Dow Jones will jointly select the board's founding members, who would in turn choose future members.