Have your cake and laugh at it, too. Jen Yates' book, Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong, made it to the New York Times most popular emailed list this week. Yates' book is flying off the shelves at bookstores and online booksellers, and the reason IS hilarious.

I've written before about the use of text messages and Twitter in emergencies. In fact, in the U.S., emergency crews recommend the use of text messages rather than calls as SMS "piggybaacks" on top of voice data, saving bandwidth for those who really need it: emergency responders.

On Thursday Carl Icahn launched his long-delayed blog, which was first announced in February. The Icahn Report, despite debuting on Thursday, already had seven entries, including one dated as early as June 12th.

lastingtribute.co.uk, one of the leading memorial websites that allows people to pay online tributes in celebration of the lives of those they admired, has launched its own blog.

Startling government research on teenage girls and sexually transmitted diseases sends a blunt message to kids who think they’re immune: It’s liable to happen to you or someone you know

A fellow blogger Misr Digital (misrdigital.tk/) and Human Rights activist, who has won awards for his efforts is being silenced by YouTube and Yahoo!.

Being among the first to pick up on Internet news and gossip and rapidly detecting contamination anywhere in a water supply system are similar problems, at least from a computer scientist’s point of view. Both can be solved with a versatile algorithm developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers.

Monitis Inc., a leading provider of web monitoring solutions, launched new website www.mybuzzmonitor.com. MyBuzzMonitor grants bloggers an opportunity to enhance their blogs with customizable buzz monitoring widget. Once installed it will track and display latest news and online conversation using chosen keywords.

NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY), one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions, is sponsoring a year-long CNN initiative called ‘Be the Change,’ a pioneering format of citizen journalism that seeks to capture and share the personal stories and triumphs of volunteer aid workers from South Africa to Cambodia.

The new blog will provide unique information about how coaching serves to develop leaders, along with information about ongoing initiatives and processes Pyramid designs and delivers for current clients.

A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning.