Costas Not Upset About Bonds Comments (AP via HuffPo)
A day after Barry Bonds called him a "little midget man who knows (nothing) about baseball," broadcaster Bob Costas said he wasn't upset with the San Francisco Giants slugger and responded with a jab of his own. "As anyone can plainly see, I'm 5-6 1/2 and a strapping 150, and unlike some people, I came by all of it naturally," Costas said Thursday.

Mark Cuban: The Internet Is Dead (Multichannel News)
Speaking on the closing panel of the CTAM Summit, Cuban declared, "The Internet's for old people." His basic point: The Internet has gone stagnant. The only "new application" on the World Wide Web of recent vintage was, in his view, YouTube — which, unlike Cuban’s Broadcast.com, ripped off the creative content of intellectual-property owners to build its video-based business.

CBS Looking to Grow (CNN/Money)
Paul La Monica: Every major media company owns something that makes it cool. And then there's CBS. Long derided as the network for "old" people, the company hasn't been considered to be one of the more exciting media companies. But that's quickly been changing.

Style.com Gets Sweeter With CandyCast (Mediaweek)
Webcasts of print and broadcast personalities are so last season. Candy Pratts Price, executive fashion director of Style.com, who has done plenty of television as a fashion analyst, this time appears on screen as an animated avatar in CandyCast, a new feature on the site that launches today. Style.com, Condé Nast's fashion destination site, used technology firm Oddcast to create the avatar.

From Page to Stage (WWD)
For the second time in recent memory, a New Yorker article is coming to life onstage. Like Lawrence Wright's critically acclaimed "My Trip to Al-Qaeda" last March, New Yorker writer George Packer's play will concern contemporary events in the Middle East and be produced by The Culture Project.

Political Fashionbabble (The Boston Globe)
Ellen Goodman: This self-couture-analysis comes in response to the latest piece on Hillary Clinton's attire by The Washington Post's resident fashionista. Robin Givhan's cultural critique began with a holy-moly observation: "There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-Span2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton." Givhan's 750-word plunge into the shirt of the presidential candidate had women throwing up their hands (among other things) all over the blogosphere.

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