Writer and radio host Kurt Andersen has, at long last, discovered The Wire, approximately 40 years after everyone else. Luckily his job does not involve being abreast of media or culture, or this would be embarrassing.

Michael Turk, "eCampaign Director" for Bush-Cheney 04, made an abortion joke. Quick, someone make an equally funny comeback involving Congressional pages!

Oprah taught Page Six's Neel Shah the definition of real media power: when you can get the Black Eyed Peas to cut a custom version of their song for your phone-hold music.

In addition to having to cope with looming holiday layoffs, Electronic Arts staffers have been asked to please keep Veronica Belmont physically awake at all times.

You heard Engadget's Joshua Topolsky right, ladies: His cable BRINGS IT. Get freaky with the coaxial!

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Writer Courtney Reimer's overshare left us highly uncentered.

Scott Rosenberg, formerly of Salon, called Mediaite's Power Grid "idiocy," but took three tweets to do it. So if he's right, he lost to the troll. HAND?

Twitter did not allow the Wall Street Journal's Julia Angwin the space to define what she meant by "hookup" in this context.

Time's Karen Tumulty found she was denied even her maternal martyrdom.

Vlogger Veronica Belmont got a fond reminder of the days before she ever learned who "Jason Calacanis" was.

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BusinessWeek writer Spencer Ante offshored.

Revision3 videoblogger Veronica Belmont revealed her musical tastes.

Domestic tyrant Martha Stewart apologized.

Gizmodo blogger Matt Buchanan pumped himself up.

CNET video host Natali Del Conte revealed her superhero fetish.

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Mancunian editrix Louise Bolotin recounted her cat's lepidoptivorous habits.

Chris Nuttall of the Financial Times was so on vacation that he couldn't even type "holiday."

Geek videoblogger Veronica Belmont came up with a great new business model for Facebook.

British journalist Debbie James was grateful for fags, by which we think she meant "cigarettes."

VentureBeat editor Eric Eldon mindlessly fondled a gadget. Oh, is that what the kids are calling it?

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It seems like a lot of money to us cheapskates on the Web, especially for something that amounts to a lot of promotional content and advertising for other PlayStation titles, but remember that gamers already forked over $400 to $600 for the console and around $40 to $70 for each game. And did we mention Veronica Belmont? In high definition? Hawt.

She totally blew the screen test for Big Brother today. She choked, and they had her re-shoot. She may still have a shot, since the casting guys were interested in her 10k followers. Seriously though, I think she's a lost cause for Mahalo Daily.

Our tipster thinks Digg founder Kevin Rose's ex-girlfriend Posh Suicide of SuicideGirls has the inside track. Suicide certainly has a camera presence, but can she handle interviews? Judging from the above clip excerpted from her guest appearance on Gametrailers.com, it seems Suicide might have a hard time replacing the goofy but smart and quick-quipped Belmont. But perhaps that's not what Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is after. Say, does that casting couch feel warm to you?

Jason Calacanis's loss is Engadget blogger Ryan Block's gain. Belmont's commute left boyfriend Block with nothing to keep him happy but his shiny, shiny gadgets.

(Photo of Belmont and Block by b_d_solis, video by Andy Sternberg)

We wonder why the Eye doesn't just speed things up and put Campbell in front of a real camera, as CNET has wisely done with new on-air editor Natali Del Conte. But take heart, Lindsay, at least you're not Veronica Belmont, stuck hamming it up for the likes of Jason Calacanis.

• Veronica Belmont of Jason Calacanis's Mahalo Daily is here with a crew of three or four people — and that's before her Engadget support team shows up. Jason, I thought the point of Internet video was that you didn't need a big support staff.
• There are the usual event staples of fish and pasta, but then there is a lone waitress walking around with delicious lamb chops. Every time she walks by I hear a quiet chorus from the surrounding press flacks: "Ooh, are those lamb chops?"
• A remote-controlled rolling robotic beer cooler. True, this is a gadget but it combines laziness, beer, and completely uselessness; three tried and true geek pastimes.

Is Mahalo really worth 75 percent more than it was in June? Calacanis thinks so. But why does Mahalo even need more funding? Is Mahalo burning cash? Is Veronica Belmont asking for a Mahalo Daily wardrobe allowance? (If so, you go, girl!) Did the bulldogs eat Calacanis's previous round of funding? Either Calacanis has acquisitions on his mind, or the funtrepreneur just wants an ever-larger paper valuation he can Twitter about. You decide.

In his post, Baron gripes about Calacanis's "aggressive marketing tactics" to promote Mahalo Daily, the site's videoblog with former CNET host Veronica Belmont. But in a reply to Baron's attacks, Calacanis guesses the antipathy stems from Calacanis's public attempt to hire Amanda Cogdon after she quit Rocketboom.

Yeah, it could be that. Or it could be that in Mahalo Daily's launch trailer, Calacanis and Belmont parodied "Rocketboom" on Mahalo Daily and Calacanis said, "Hm. Been thinking about it. Rocketboom just isn't that funny."

There's only one way to resolve this, of course. No, not a catfight between Belmont and Rocketboom anchor Joanne Colan, pervs. Instead: Bulldog love!

Not because Belmont is untalented. Far from it. We won't weigh in on whether she's "Rojas-level." (She is dating Ryan Block, Rojas's successor as the editor of Engadget.) Let's explore the Rojas analogy for a moment. At Engadget, Rojas never needed Calacanis; he succeeded out of sheer creative energy and a fierce desire to prove himself. Judging by Calacanis's hammy performance on her trailer video, if Belmont succeeds on Mahalo, it won't be because of Calacanis. It will be in spite of him.

Calacanis realizes that if search isn't putting butts in Aeron seats, he can always try to boost geeky traffic with popular entertainment. He lays this strategy bare by orchestrating the amusing Belmont through an unamusing series of popular video show parodies: Ze Frank, Rocketboom, Ask a Ninja, Tay Zonday, Diggnation, and Lonelygirl15. The only problem? Calacanis's hamhanded directorial approach destroys Belmont's charm. (On the bright side, there is a bulldog!) The parade of references to one-hit wonders of online video past is telling. All of them had buzz that quickly sputtered. Fortunately, talent will out. Mahalo may end up a flash in the pan, but Belmont's star, we suspect, is only beginning to rise.