Not only does Google AdSense pay badly, it can wreck your unemployment benefits. The State of New York cut one woman's benefit checks and told her running the ads was "self employment." AdSense earned her $1.30 per day. [TechDirt] (Pic)

The governor of California promised "swift action" against his wife; a podcaster recounted a conversation about cat eating and Biz Stone fell in love with Seinfeld all over again.

In the crowded media landscape, it's not easy to create buzz for a new film. It takes years of careful positioning, delicate marketing skills, a well-cultivated grassroots network...Or you can just buy a bunch of bloggers trips to London.

[A shadow passes across a translucent screen of letter men at the 61st annual Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, which started today. Image via Getty]

Last month, we found out the FBI destroyed a file on Walter Cronkite despite its obligation to retain historically significant records. Gawker has learned that the file involved an extortion investigation. What is it with CBS luminaries and extortion, anyway?

eBay has already confirmed it is planning a round of layoffs. Now a company tipster tells us the internal reckoning is slated to come on Thursday.

This search slip shows the destroyed file—"HQ 9-57023"—and several others that Cronkite's name shows up in, according to the FBI's filing system. One of them—"NY 145-3591"—appears to have been an obscenity investigation.

Leighton Meester released her "first" single today on Ryan Seacrest's radio show. It is horrible. Just as every actor wants to direct, every female TV star wants to be a singer. It never ends well.

It's not just America's sad newspapers that are considering converting to nonprofits: The blog Jewcy.com has transformed from potential profit gusher into the beneficiary of tax-deductible contributions. At least people are getting paid.

As expected, Bloomberg has won the bidding for Businessweek magazine, beating out the investment firm ZelnickMedia. They ended up paying more than the cost of McChicken, after all.

on what it takes for someone named Trump to flourish within the Trump Organization, in an interview with Nightline airing tonight to promote her book, The Trump Card. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump.

Recently sentenced Utah convict Kari Ferrell has sent another jailhouse letter to her pen pal, Animal NY's Bucky Turco. Below, a random sample. Her prose style should be familiar by now.

Those fish pedicures that no one was actually getting, but which managed to generate loads of press nonetheless? State Senator Jeffrey Klein of the Bronx announced yesterday that he plans to introduce legislation to ban the "treatment," since "you can't sanitize fish" and it's "dangerous and clearly unsanitary."

Dan Lacey presents: "Tinsley Mortimer dressed as Eloise from The Plaza wearing a Kentucky Derby worthy hat being robbed by Fabiolo Beracasa dressed as Lady Bunny and Daphne Guinness dressed as Thomas Jefferson outside The Waverly Inn in New York."

Minnesota media reporter David Brauer: "I'd kill for my Sunday New York Times to come on Saturday." Move here, then. Problem solved. No need to kill anybody. Jesus. The outlier states are full of psychos. [MinnPost. Pic: Flickr]

If Hollywood were a high school then it would pretty much be exactly like Hollywood, right down to the Most Popular awards, named today by the Hollywood Temp Diaries blog, with the annoucement of their coveted 2009 Brown List.

Five years ago today, a luminous young producer at Fox News named Andrea Mackris enriched all of our lives just a little bit by suing a lecherous fathead named Bill O'Reilly for trying to rub falafel on her private parts.

[Kim Cattrall looks like crazy Aunt Midge straight out of the home while signing some documents on the set of Sex and the City 2 yesterday. Image via INF]

• There may be other suitors for NBC in addition to Comcast. Like News Corp. And Liberty Media. And Time Warner. Or maybe not. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, for one, says he isn't interested. [THR, DHD, Gawker, AdAge]
• More on the sale of BusinessWeek: "Knowledgeable sources" say Bloomberg is paying $2-$5 million in cash for the mag. And another source reports the mag will be changing its name to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Naturally. [BW, NYT]
• The war between the White House and Fox News goes on. [NYDN, ABC, CJR]
• If you notice TV commercials seem more upbeat than usual, it's because the advertising world has decided to be cheerful and optimistic again. [NYT]
• The Atlantic has determined that NBC CEO Jeff Zucker and New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. are "Brave Thinkers," for some reason. [NYO]

It may seem crass to put a pricetag on a human life. But you never know when a brand-name blogger like Matt Drudge or Perez Hilton might be tragically killed. Luckily, 24/7 Wall Street has calculated the economic loss.