January 30, 2008 – Caring is sharing, people, especially when it comes to your personal data. Leading developers from important social-network sites joining a "data-portability" advocacy group doesn't represent history in the making. [Gawker]

January 16, 2008 – The Library of Congress has teamed with Flickr to make its vast catalog of images available on the Web, starting with 3,000 photographs with no known copyright holders. [Gawker]

January 15, 2008 – Stock traders weren't blown away by Steve Jobs's Macworld announcements, sending Apple shares down 5 percent. Rivals faired even worse, however. From the numbers, they expect Apple's movie-rental service with support from all of the major studios to pummel brick-and-mortar competitor Blockbuster,... [Gawker]

January 15, 2008 – Who needs a YouTube channel when you can have your own cable network? Estrogen-drenched media mogul Oprah Winfrey has formed a cashless 50-50 joint venture with Discovery Communications to launch the Oprah Winfrey Network in mid-2009. [Gawker]

January 15, 2008 – How does Steve Jobs's Macworld gadgetfest rank among other annual, can't-miss events? You decide in our poll. (Photo by acaben) Gawker Media polls require Javascript; [Gawker]

January 15, 2008 – Amazon will pay the equivalent of $1,500 per day in fines and continue to offer free shipping in France in defiance of a recently imposed court order. [Gawker]

January 10, 2008 – VC turned entrepreneur Heidi Roizen now riters lyrics about her paranoiac fear that people might be looking at her thighs, for songs featuring session musicians you've never heard of. [Gawker]

January 10, 2008 – The state of New York is launching its own investigation into Intel's anticompetitive behavior, adding to a list including the European Commission and Korea, all egged on by chipmaking rival AMD. [Gawker]

January 10, 2008 – Mary Lou Jespen, founding CTO of the One Laptop Per Child project, recently walked off her job at Nicholas Negroponte's charity case. And now she wants to build a $75 version of the laptop that OLPC has struggled to build for $200. [Gawker]

January 8, 2008 – Apple's iPod doesn't just dominate our pockets. It's reshaping how we listen to music in the home. The Consumer Electronics Association forecasts that speaker systems with iPod docks — [Gawker]

January 8, 2008 – A federal judge has sanctioned six Qualcomm attorneys for failing to produce tens of thousands of documents in the chip manufacturer's high-profile patent-infringement lawsuit with Broadcom. [Gawker]