The time has (finally!) come for us to wish you all Happy Holidays and take our leave. Barring any urgent, breaking news in the coming days, we’ll be back on the media beat on Monday.

And if you miss us too much, here are some things to tide you over: all our end of the year lists!

Biggest Launches Of The Year

New York Media’s Biggest Business Decisions

The Year’s Biggest Moves In Media

Stories That Captivated NY Media

Events The Media Loved This Year

Our Most Read Stories Of The Year

Timeline of Magazine Closings

Alan Meckler, CEO of mediabistro.com’s parent company WebMediaBrands, may be all doom and gloom as the Ghost of Christmas Future, but Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby still wants to wish happy holidays to you and yours. And as we head into a new year and a new decade, we’re hoping 2010 won’t suck as much as 2009.

And may we offer some advice to those wanting to get into the media in the coming year? Check out our job listings before you do anything extreme.

Wishing you a peaceful holiday season and a very happy, creative and productive New Year, from FishbowlNY and the whole Mediabistro.com family!

Looking for a late addition holiday gift-slash-tax deduction? The Huffington Post just made it that much easier by adding a last-minute section to its “Gifts That Give Back” online store, which is part of its new vertical Impact.

HuffPost, in conjunction with charity group Causecast has made it possible for you to buy your loved ones the greatest gift of all: helping the less fortunate. Which will totally make up for the fact that you forgot to buy your mom a present until December 24th. Peruse the gifts here that start at $25, which, let’s be honest, won’t break your bank account no matter how hard up you are.

Full press release after the jump.

Read More: Attention Last-Minute Shoppers: HuffPost Has a Store With Gifts That Give Back to Those in Need –Huffington Post

Previously: HuffPost’s Impact Kicks Off 12 Days Of Giving To Needy Families, On The Menu: Mediabistro’s Holiday Gift Guide

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Last week we were tipped to the fact that 13 New York City-based blogs had joined forces to create the ultimate holiday guide for our fair city. If you have yet to check it out, we suggest you take a minute to peruse some of the helpful tips, event listings and gift suggestions that these crafty bloggers have dug up, just for you.

For example, if you’re looking for a place to volunteer over the holidays, GiveandGetNYC.com has some suggestions for you. Or maybe it’s DIY gift wrapping ideas you seek. So check out ImprovisedLife.com. And if you’re looking for things to do this season, there’s a list of things to see in Brooklyn from BrooklynBased.net, offbeat and multicultural events for families from MommyPoppins.com, big ticket shows from NewYorkology.com, places to get a drink around the city from NYBarfly.com and things to do on the cheap from TheSkint.com.

Planning a getaway? OffManhattan.com has you covered.

And for those of you with money to burn, here’s 21 gifts over $21 from ManhattanUsersGuide.com.

Along with every post, you’ll find links to all of the other participating blogs and their two cents on the how to do up the holidays in the city.

Happy Holidays!

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We’re off for the day celebrating the birth of our nation, but we wanted to leave you with something today … just in case you are chained to you desk.

This week, we were lucky enough to see Kansas State University professor and anthropologist Michael Wesch‘s presentation about YouTube and Internet culture at the Personal Democracy Forum. Wesch rose to prominence in the YouTube community thanks to a short video he made in 2007 called “The Machine is Us/ing Us.” While we wait for someone to post a high res version of his presentation from Tuesday, here is a similar presentation Wesch did last year at the Library of Congress. It’s long, but its worth it.