Maybe the best part (in a "can you believe it's come to this" sort of way) is that McCain clearly hears this this guy and continues on, without pause, to say "But, my friends, you ask such questions and all you get in response is another angry barrage of insults." 27 days and counting.

Elizabeth Shepard will join Delish.com as executive director taking over from the site's founding editor, Nicole Stagg. In addition Delish.com will also officially welcome editorial team members Karen Berner, senior editor; Sara Schwartz, associate editor; Kiri Tannenbaum, contributing editor; and Allison Stedman, video producer, all of whom have been a part of the site's development from the get go. Full release after the jump.

*We're not sure if this makes us feel better or worse. Probably better. Seriously, who else could get away with this.

The executive, battling a possible staff defection, attempted to explain how she saw the future of online advertising playing out. "My view is that people don't dislike ads," she said. "They dislike irrelevant, untargeted ads."

To this end, the much-reviled "new Facebook" is designed to have interactive ads. "It's a much cleaner interface. And we launched an ad product on the right, which has interactive properties. People can interact with it," the COO said. In a test campaign, MTV ran a video during its music awards and people could comment on the video. Those commends then went directly to the Newsfeed. "People were doing what they do with Facebook right in the ad," Sandberg said.

How does she feel about the millions of people protesting the redesign?

In light of today's stock market mini-meltdown, Proctor discusses how being on the West Coast is actually an advantage for reporting on the news:

"Even still, the world is mostly run from the East Coast. If you're covering the Presidential debates, most of them will be covered on East Coast time. That gives you more time to deal with the debate and offer a more analytical take on it. Obviously, Wall Street closes here at around 4:30 or so, so you have much more time to reflect and contact people about where they think the story is going. We'll often know before our final deadline what the Asian markets have done and we'll be able to include in a story about Wall Street how the Asian markets reacted 'this morning' to the news. So there are a number of advantages to being out here."

User-generated content was the topic on one of this afternoon's con-current panel discussion at the 2008 American Magazine Conference. Kevin McKean of Consumer Reports and ConsumerReports.org moderated the group which included Mitchell Fox, president and CEO, 8020 Media; Chris Johns, editor-in-chief, National Geographic; Susan Kane, editorial director and editor-in-chief, the Parenting Group; Edward Grinnan, editor-in-chief and vice president, Guideposts and Guideposts.com; and Alexandra Bandon, multimedia editor, This Old House.

Bandon, whose magazine put out an entire user-generated issue this June, spoke first. "We learned a lot about ourselves," she said, adding that despite not paying contributors for their content, "We spent pretty much the same amount of money, but we had to build a $40,000 Web site." This Old House hopes to put out another issue next year, and Bandon revealed that advertisers "got very excited about it when it was in their hands."

After the jump, more revelations from the other four panelists (in quick, easy bullet point form because I'm tired and I'm sure you're sick of reading).

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Well turns out all the concern (anticipation?) was unnecessary. Collin's profile is a mostly flattering one (Huffington is "one of the Anglophone world's most nimble and ubiquitous communicators"), revealing very little about the woman behind the online media empire (full disclosure: we worked at HuffPo for a short time and continue to make intermittent appearances). So, the question on everyone's mind now appears to be, were there perhaps some things that Collins missed (like, is it strange there's no mention of Huffington Post CEO Betsy Morgan)?

And the citizen journalist rears it head again! Remember the Sarah Palin fake pregnancy story? That, too, initially began as a anonymous post on Daily Kos. And we're all familiar with the case of Mayhill Fowler and her digital recorder, which rocked both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Leaving the discussion of the increased leverage the Internet gives to financial rumors for people who can speak to it more knowledgeably than us, there is the larger question of whether citizen journalism is a boon or a danger to the industry. Not to mention, how on earth did we all become so gullible!? To get a better sense we asked citizen journalism advocate Jay Rosen for his thoughts.

Full list, with links to covers, after the jump.

According to futurist Paul Saffo, consulting associate professor, Stanford University, and distinguished visiting scholar, Stanford Media-X, there's an amazing amount of opportunity in the changing media landscape.

"We are on the midst of a fundamental change in the whole information industry," Saffo said. "Everything is media."

"There's a massive shift from information to media, but there's also a shift from mass to personal," he explained, citing the fact that more video cameras were sold in cell phones last year than on their own.

He believes that the Information Age is over and we are at the dawn of the Media Age. Magazine publishers are at the forefront of this change, but it is difficult to see where to go. "You're at ground zero of this revolution, and that's a hard place to get perspective," Saffo said.

Where can media companies look for new ideas?

"Go where the money is," Kelly said when talking about his company's forays into the non-print world. "Forty percent of my bottom line comes from non-magazine [sources]."

Carrigan, who now sees roughly 60 percent of United States revenue come from non-print sources, said IDG was forced to deal with the move away from magazines earlier than some other categories. "The tech category was hit fast and furious," he explained. "We were the canary in the coalmine if you will."

The three on stage agreed that digital in itself was not the solution. "We just put together a large deal that really led with digital," Sareyan said. "That's where we're finding success with digital. Not isolating it on its own."

So how do you get into the digital realm?

That was a fun weekend. Lots of Sarah Palin and Tina Fey. Also bailout packages that navigated the tricky waters of Congress all the way to the Oval Office where it was lickety-split signed by President Bush. However! A Monday morning reality check may be in order courtesy of the home page of the New York Times, which is currently running yet another graph. That's because the Dow has dipped below 10,000 for the first time in four years. The markets in Europe seem to be in some sort of free fall and Americans have stopped shopping. Not surprisingly there are some who believe this is all, at least in part, the media's fault.