Readers of both NYMag.com and the Wall Street Journal‘s website may have noticed that in the wee small hours of the morning, both publications posted similar but competing articles about author James Frey and Full Fathom Five, the book-packaging company he launched to churn out young adult fiction. As it turns out, New York’s version was rushed online only after the magazine learned that the WSJ was about to scoop them on a story they’d had in the works for weeks.

With news already out that he’ll be heading back to television on TBS this fall, Conan O’Brien kicked off his 32-city live Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television tour last night in Eugene, Oregon. With “I Will Survive,” no less.

Showing off a Writer’s Strike-era beard and the same wacked sense of humor that brought him to TV, reviewers were happy to see him in good form, even if this first show was uneven at times.

Read the full post at Geekosystem.

Mediaite.com, the website of, and about the media, continued its unprecedented growth as measured by both unique visitors and page views for January and February of 2010. In its seventh full month in business, Mediaite broke the symbolic million unique visitors mark in the shortened month of February, with 1.1 million unique visitors and 4.36 million page views. In fact, for the months of January and February, Mediaite.com is now averaging just shy of 1 million unique visitors per month.

The year 2009 had many media bright spots, break-out stars, dominating networks and game-changing technologies. The Mediaite 50 collects the finest, most exemplary innovators and influencers of the year, defining a media moment in time and setting the agenda as we move forward. See the full list after the jump: