Angie Jackson, known online as Angie the Anti-theist, pushed the abortion debate–and Twitter–to a new level of transparency when she live-tweeted her abortion earlier this week.

Citing a desire to “demystify abortions for other women,” the 27-year-old created a YouTube video right after she took the RU-486 pill. That’s right. She started her abortion on YouTube and continued live-tweeting as the pill did its business.

Inspired by legions of letters from angry Manhattanites who felt the mag was going too Brooklyn, Time Out New York has addressed the Brooklyn vs. Manhattan debate head-on, with a series of 11 articles pitting the boroughs against one another. There’s a quiz, an editor debate, a hypothetical tome on what would happen if every bridge was destroyed, highlights from each hood, statistics and even a slide-show that lets you judge where people are from based on the way they look. Judgers unite!

In the March issue of Vogue, contributing editor Rebecca Johnson snagged an interview with Timothy Geithner, Secretary of Treasury. Perhaps it seems ironic–even wrong–to place “the man responsible for crafting much of the bailout” next to a $5,000 Prada bag, but Johnson’s article provides a refreshing, humanizing peek into Geithner’s life. Not just his closet.

Earlier this month, Gothamist founder Jake Dobkin went nuclear on the New York Times for its lack of innovation and abominable failure in the Metro space, calling Cityroom “a fairly lazy and sleep-inducing ripoff of Gothamist.”

How ironic, then, that just yesterday, the Times announced that it has partnered with NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute to create The Local: East Village, a hyperlocal blog that will be produced by NYU and published on the Times’ site. It’s like they could tell the future!

Today, the Huffington Post welcomed the newest member of their family, HuffPo College. Lead by Jose Antonio Vargas and Leah Finnigan, HuffPo College pulls its content from 62 student publications around the country and cross-posts from other articles on the site. A bit obvious, but it serves the section well; drawing from student papers offers an almost-exclusive peek into our nation’s universities, informing us, for example, that UC Berkley has a Quidditch league.

According to the HuffPo, the The National Enquirer officially has permission to compete for the Pulitzer Prize. And according to us, Barry Levine officially has the right to scream “Suck it, Sulzberger!”

Yesterday, Long Island University announced the winners of the 2009 George Polk Award, an annual honor for excellence in journalism. And in addition to the regular heavy-hitters, they also recognized the anonymous men and women that filmed the death of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan. This marks the first time that citizen journalists have received such a traditional, industry-recognized honor. And as a result, it’s a really freaking big deal.

According to the Wall Street Journal, James Cameron confirmed Tuesday night that he, James Cameron, the highest-grossing film director of all time, will turn Avatar into a novel.

How interesting, considering that the best parts of the movie were its special effects.

We here at Mediaite spend our days wondering about life’s greatest mysteries. But much more importantly, we wonder which of our beloved media personalities wields the most power. Our Power Grid does an excellent job of ranking, cataloging and categorizing the personalities, but sometimes, the finer nuances of influence and change need a human touch.

The fashion rules at the Jersey Shore are scant and easy: leopard, leather, rips and studs are always in vogue. Bigger poufs are better poufs. Skirts and shorts must be small enough to display the lower curve of the derriere, push-up bras are mandatory (plus five if it has a matching g-string from Frederick’s of Hollywood), and if boobs and/or vagina do not escape at some point during the night, then we have a major fashion situation.

According to Fashion Week Daily, ELLE has partnered with Upper East Side boutique Edit New York to bring you spring’s must-haves, as determined by ELLE’S Joann Pailey and Kate Davidson Hudson (market director, senior accessories editor) and Edit’s Alissa Emerson and Valerie Feigen (fashion director, co-owner)

Though digital magazines were conspicuously missing at the iPad’s debut, Interview, according to the HuffPo, previewed its digital brethren last night at its 40th anniversary party at the Hudson Hotel’s Good Units. The Factory would be proud on so many levels, except that the video was not made available in any viral form. Ew.

In today’s Media Equation column in the New York Times, David Carr tackles Demand Studios, the content creation behemoth behind sites like eHow, Livestrong, and a hefty chunk of the videos on YouTube. They are a new breed of media company, a self-identified “Social Publishing Ecosystem for leading digital brands.” And they’re swiftly dominating the Internet.

This week, TechCrunch fired Daniel Brusilovsky, an intern in the throes of his Senior year of high school, for requesting a Macbook Air in exchange for writing a post about a start-up–after he’d already received one computer for the same thing.

According to Daniel Maurer of the Daily Intel, Steve Jobs and 50 New York Times execs held a top-secret dinner meeting, organized by Apple, at Pranna on Wednesday night. The group dined in the cellar, enjoying chef Chai Trivedi’s South Asian delicacies under the glow of the iPad’s LED.

In case you haven’t heard, this year’s Vanity Fair Hollywood issue is extremely monochromatic; nary one person of color made the cover. But something else VF staffers failed to note? Two of the actresses in their “New Decade: New Holly” article were featured in 2008 as “Hollywood’s New Wave.” Guess they are still up-and-coming?

Last fall, a hacker broke into Conde Nast’s computer system, flinging early copies of GQ, Vogue and other publications all over the Internet. To prevent further breaches of trust and budget, Conde set up the Fraud Reporting Hotline. According to the memo sent by Chief Financial Officer John Bellando, employees are encouraged to turn in anyone guilty of “release of proprietary information, accounting/audit irregularities, falsification of company records, theft of goods/services/cash,” and “unauthorized discounts/payoffs.”

As dialogue continues to swirl about the iTampon’s big iLetdown, David Carr’s recent article in the New York Times touches on a point that has often gone unsaid: this is a media consumption device, not a gadget, and its larger size is precisely what makes it special.

US Weekly has really blown us away with their recent article, “EXCLUSIVE: Oops! Jessica Simpson Farts During Business Meeting.” Which, by the way, is filed under their “News” vertical. To maintain both dignity and professionalism, their source remained anonymous. But, boy, was the scoop a doozy.

Since Norman Pearlstine, former Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., joined Bloomberg as Chief Content Officer, many of the staffers at Timehave slowly been trickling over to join him. First, it was Josh Tyrangiel, who now serves as BusinessWeek’s Editor in Chief. Then, it was Arthur Hochstein, Time’s “legendary” art director, who stepped down in 2009 and will now be consulting for both BusinessWeek and Time. Who else is planning to “reunite” with Pearlstine?

In case you haven’t heard, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is in the process of creating a New York City edition of the Wall Street Journal, a project he planned to go “all in” on not a mere two months ago. Now, it looks like “all in” means “turn to your biggest competitors for help.”

The Salahis won’t have to sneak by the secret service because, tonight, CitizenTube is bringing Obama to them. That’s right. Tonight, CitizenTube, YouTube’s interactive political vlog, will livestream the State of the Union at 9 p.m.and, for the first time in history, make it social. If this doesn’t solidify social media’s place in more traditional news and politics, then I don’t know what will.

The Daily Beast’s Chief Investigative Reporter Gerald Posner, “award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, on topics ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism,” just got the exclusive gossip scoop on what really went down with Tiger that fateful Thanksgiving Eve.

Last week, Vivian Schiller, CEO and President of NPR, offered the Daily Beast her opinion on the New York Times’ recently announced pay wall. Basically, she applauds their efforts and really isn’t sure whether or not it will work. But as the head of one of the largest donations-based media organizations in history, Schiller doesn’t really need to worry.

The Huffington Post has really outdone themselves today with their latest Green feature: “Animals Eat Weird Things.” The slide show depicts tigers, butterflies, squirrels, monkeys and bears eating “weird” things like lollipops, sneakers, corn and–gasp–blocks of ice!