Clever: Facebook Funds A Privacy Watchdog Group

Smart move: Thanks to a legal settlement finalized today, many of the privacy watchdogs watching Facebook will soon seek funding from Facebook.

The YouTube-Viacom Documents Are Now Available For Your Reading Pleasure! (VIA, GOOG)

The unsealed court documents in the YouTube-Viacom fight are now public.

Viacom has a page set up for all the information and documents here.

Apple Files Patent For Hot Potato Clone (AAPL)

Apple filed a patent application for a mobile social networking service called iGroups that sounds an awful lot like Hot Potato, Patently Apple reports.

Dilbert Stars In This Year's NCAA March Madness On Demand 'Boss Button' (CBS)

Once again, CBS has a fun "boss button" for its NCAA March Madness on Demand player.

This year, it's a PowerPoint slideshow with Dilbert cartoons and a goofy "March 2010 Work Flow Diagram" from Scott Adams.

Apple Board Member Jerome York Has Died (AAPL)

Jerome York, an Apple board member and former CFO at IBM, has passed away. He was 71.

From Apple: Apple is sad to announce the death of Apple Board member Jerome B.

Why Your Blog Should Be More Interactive

When a reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people. 

First off, there’s me.

20 Raunchy Text Messages Tiger Woods Sent To His Mistress Joslyn James

The New York Post has an incredible transcript of text messages Tiger Woods allegedly sent to his mistress Joselyn James.

Sony Tears Into Microsoft, Nintendo With Chuckle-Worthy New Ad From The "Future" (NTDOY, MSFT, SNE)

The console wars just got a little nastier.

Via Gizmodo, Sony (SNE) has a new ad out for its forthcoming motion-controller, the Move, and it takes a few not-so-subtle shots at its competitors.

Quick! What Do Venus Williams, Real Player, And This Girl Playing A Guitar Have In Common?

Announcing "We are Attention and we support Foursquare," New York PR firm Attention has cooked up a single-serving Web site called "Things That Are Also Like Gowalla.

Former Spoiled Magazine Editors Get Rude Awakening In Post-Print World (YHOO)

Brandon Holley, the 43-year-old editor in chief of Yahoo!'s Web site for women Shine, is profiled in this morning's New York Times.