The Mediabistro Circus concluded yesterday, and our mediabistro.com blogs had the entire event covered:

• MediaJobsDaily’s Rachel Kaufman writes about Steve Rubel‘s advice for making employees “rock stars,” as well as why Crowdsourcing creator Jeff Howe isn’t killing your industry.

• PRNewser’s Joe Ciarallo writes about the creative ways, including bribery, Businessweek.com EIC John Byrne got his journalists to respond to comments on articles.

• Galleycat’s Jason Boog has a video interview with Six Apart’s chief evangelist Anil Dash about the “Typepad Journalism Bailout Program” and more.

Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu: Obama visits the office of his new hometown newspaper, “The Office” is renewed on NBC and “What We Learned This Week.” Also — this “Miracle on the Hudson” plane crash yesterday.

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Join us on Monday as we’re joined by former MSNBC and CNN anchor Tucker Carlson.

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Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu: newspapers and other media prepare for Inauguration Day, The Chicago Tribune adds a tabloid edition and the press access remains limited in Gaza. Also, PRNewser’s Joe Ciarallo joins us.

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• Update: Join us tomorrow for the Menu when Dan Abrams joins us. We’ll discuss Abrams Research and the media news of the day.

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We began counting how many minutes of fame Joe the Plumber had amassed in a post yesterday, but it appears there’s no need to continue a running counter: Joe the Plumber now has a publicist, a record deal and more media appearances on the horizon.

PRNewser’s Joe Ciarallo talks to Joe’s newly-named publicist, Jim Della Croce, owner of PR agency The Press Office.

The record deal came about after Joe’s appearance on Mike Huckabee‘s FNC program earlier this month, when he met country star Aaron Tippin. The deal is a “hybrid management deal with country star Aaron Tippin, Bobby Roberts, who owns the booking agency Bobby Roberts Company, (they handle artists like Aaron and Merle Haggard) and The Press Office.”

As for Joe’s upcoming interviews, he’s headed to MSNBC next, with an interview on MSNBC Dayside with Alex Witt on Saturday.