Harry Potter fans may roll their eyes, but a Mormon housewife’s vampire romance rivals the popularity of the wizard world. Ever since publishing house Little, Brown took a chance on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, America has been bitten by vamp-lust.

Courtney Love just made the blog leap from MySpace to Tumblr. The Hole front-woman, famous for her MySpace blog posts, wrote an adios of sorts on her MySpace blog July 31st: “what a ghost town… wow. poor Myspace well weve all had some great times.” Fans wondered where she’d surface next in the comments section of the entry.

Vampires are having a moment. True Blood is a much-needed hit for HBO, with its latest episodes passing the 5-million viewers mark; Twilight is already churning out the third movie of its franchise, Eclipse, with newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard upping the star power of the cast. Kevin Williamson’s Vampire Diaries looks like Dawson’s Creek with [...]

Like many political action organizations, the conservative-leaning Christian Coalition ( tagline: Defending America’s Godly Heritage!) has a Twitter presence. With almost 5,000 Twitter followers and steady updates, the Christian Coalition will no doubt be heard in the Twitterverse and beyond. But when one Tweets to the masses, not every reader will comprise your typical audience. [...]

In Warcraft, an online social media world as much as a game, players usually log in daily, even if just to say a quick “Hello” to their guildmates and run “dailies.” I know people who have met their significant others while questing in Azeroth – who have had weddings in-game – and long-distance BFFs who keep in touch via dungeon runs. In other words, Blizzard has successfully inculcated a heavy emotional investment in the majority of their players – an investment that I bet will easily translate into plunking down 10 bucks on opening night for two hours of movie magic.