From TechCrunch, who picked it up from former TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick at Twitter via Cyberjournalist: Things sure are quiet at MySpace News

An excerpt from the May 14 post:

... The front page of MySpace News shows most stories with zero votes. Two stories have a single vote. None have more than that. Perusing through the various categories shows the same thing - page after page of stories with no votes or other evidence that anyone is visiting the site.

MySpace PR isn’t commenting, but I do note that MySpace news, which is still in beta, is not linked from the MySpace home page or otherwise being promoted.When will MySpace begin promoting it? They can’t be getting much in the way of valuable beta feedback since no one is using it. For now, the site is DOA.

BBC Tech correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones writes a reasonably amusing (well, by Beeb standards) yarn about his foray into the world of social networking sites as a 40-something.

It's a warm one in T.O. today -- 27 degrees Celsius, feels like 33.

One business I went into on my rounds had its AC on, which is understandable. But it also had its front doors wide open, which is not.

While making my purchase, I idly inquired if they had the AC on. The clerk answered in the affirmative.

"Then you might want to close your front doors," I suggested as gently as possible.

She grimaced, concurred and acted. I said thanks.

On the streetcar ride home, there were all sorts of businesses with their front doors open. If they are all running AC simultaneously, then I would suggest they probably aren't paying enough for electricity.

This is a grim, stylish, riveting look at the world of one despicable, middle-aged Parisian gangster and the changing of the repugnant guard around him.