This is page 8 of the blogging news archives.

William Shatner Lands Role in Comedy Based on Twitter Stream (February 21, 2010): Hollywood Reporter says William Shatner has landed the starring role in a comedy based on the Twitter account, @shitmydadsays.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Launches Twitter Account (February 13, 2010): White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has launched a Twitter account, @PressSec.

YouTube Producer Gets $30 Million Contract (January 11, 2010): A YouTube movie producer has a landed a $30 million contract for a Hollywood film thanks to his impressive short film called Ataque de Panico.

New Competition for Bloggers: Fast Food Content (December 14, 2009): Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has an interesting post here about the rise of fast food content.

Facebook Status Update About Pancakes Clears Suspect (November 12, 2009): A 19-year-old New York City robbery suspect was exonerated thanks to his Facebook page.

Britney Spears Twitter Account Hacked Again (November 12, 2009): Britney Spears' Twitter account, @britneyspears, was hacked for at least the third time today.

On Twitter Lists and Twitter Influence (November 5, 2009): We have compiled a list of the 200+ most listed Twitter accounts.

Twitter Lists Make Twitter More Useful (October 17, 2009): Twitter Lists are great new way to organize information and follow tweets on Twitter.

YouTube Now Serving One Billion Video Views Daily (October 10, 2009): YouTube announced this week that they are now serving one billion video views each day.

Robo.to Offers Micro Video Blogging (October 6, 2009): We have microblogging, so why not microvideoblogging.

Dood Will Scream Your Tweets From Rocky Cliff (October 3, 2009): A dood named Sam Wilson at illScreamYourTweets.

Twitter to Launch Twitter Lists (October 1, 2009): Twitter blogged yesterday that it will soon add a feature called Lists.

The Bump Launches Mommy Blog Awards (September 22, 2009): TheBump.

YouTube to Monetize Viral Videos (August 25, 2009): YouTube has a post today that says Google is opening up the YouTube Partnership Program to include "individual popular videos.

Most Tweets Fall Into Pointless Babble Category (August 13, 2009): The SFGate's tech blog called The Tech Chronicles has summarized the findings from a new study (PDF) from Pear Analytics.

Tumblr Reaches 50 Million Active Monthly User Milestone (August 11, 2009): More people are using the Tumblr tool to make short blogs.

Twitter Starting to Filter URLs Linking to Malware (August 5, 2009): F-Secure reported recently that they noticed Twitter was starting to filter malicious URLs.

U.S. Marine Corps Bans Twitter, Social Networks (August 4, 2009): Wired's Danger Room blog reports that the U.

Bit.ly Plans News Service, Data Analysis (August 3, 2009): Wired reports that Bit.

Scientists Create Software to Measure Happiness in Blog Posts and Tweets (August 1, 2009): Discovery News reports that Vermont scientists Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth have created a software program that analyzes blogs and tweets to ascertain how happy or sad people are.