Yahoo's newest blogger sat down for a brief interview with Forbes, and he's bursting with energy and candor—who knows which camcorders he'll help us set up at his new corporate home? The future is a thrill. He won't, however, talk about any of his ethical problems.

David Pogue, veteran non-reporter, alleged wife-attacker, and lover of publicists, is leaving the mothership for Marissa Mayer. It may or may not have to do with everyone at the Times hating him.

Full disclosure: Spiegel agreed to be the interviewed by the Palisadian-Post under the guideline that no controversial questions would be asked. He also would not let this reporter audiotape the interview.

Brittany Darwell has covered, almost encyclopedically, Facebook.com. She knows every detail, every line, every pixel, every small version change. She knows how the ads work, she knows how Likes work, and she wants only to list it for us on her website, Inside Facebook. But now she's joining the mothership.

Last month, Reuters asked if Rupert Murdoch could hold on to Kara Swisher, the "best journalist (so far) of the new millennium." The answer is officially no, according to Fortune's Dan Primack, who first reported that AllThingsD had tapped the investment bank Code Advisors "to find outside investors" for a deal "that could exceed $25 million" (the price AOL paid for TechCrunch in 2010.)

Just imagine the scene: news breaks that one of the most influential figures in the history of technology is having an affair with an underling. But instead of choosing one of the many photos Amanda Rosenberg herself uploaded, People magazine apparently seizes the first snap of a woman in Google Glass it can find.

PandoDaily is all about transparency—while rival startup rag TechCrunch takes a more literary angle with its industry cuddling, Silicon Valley bully Sarah Lacy wants to be clear that she's in the business of tech PR. And finally, she's getting the thanks she deserves.

To explain the rise of "the sharing economy" made of startups like Airbnb, Uber, and TaskRabbit, The Verge looks to . . . the decline of serial killers. The two would seem to correlate about as well the growth of location services and the decline of horse-driven buggies. This has been a gentle reminder that regular killers can kill too.

The team at AOL's intrepid startup newsroom never shies away from thinly rewritten press releases—don't mess with a good formula. But today, TechCrunch reaches new heights/depths in the art: the press release as corporate fan fiction, imagining a cool new world in which Google replaces humans.

Former BusinessWeek reporter, TechCrunch columnist, and current tech PR star Sarah Lacy has made a name for herself: her website, PandoDaily, is one of the industry's most loyal allies. But if you do something she doesn't like, she and her goons will try to destroy you. Look at their rabid emails and see.

Something beautiful happened yesterday: an otherwise fractious internet was drawn together in harmony, united in mutual contempt for a new website called Bustle. Bustle is the spawn of asinine media mastermind Bryan Goldberg—creator of the dudebro sports-spam boiler room Bleacher Report—who reached new depths explaining his amazing, unprecedented brainstorm: a website... for girls!

Ever since Jessica Lessin, the standout Wall Street Journal tech tech reporter, left the mothership to launch her own site, we've wondered how she'll pay for it. Now, we think we have an answer: you'll pay for it, at least in part. But is anyone going to shell out money for more tech articles?

Ex-Facebook president, drug enthusiast, and High Elf of The Redwoods Sean Parker is a private man—he just wanted to marry his beautiful cosplaying fiancee in peace, along with hundreds of their rich and powerful friends. Oh, and a Vanity Fair writer, who detailed the whole thing.

Did you read any articles about Apple's long-rumored "cheap iPhone"? The gadget mill is churning with fresh evidence for the mythical handset, fed by a new undercover investigation from China Labor Watch. You'd never guess the investigation uncovered even more horrendous labor practices.

What a kind heart. Right now, middling trade pub editor and anti-labor activist Sarah Lacy is talking about a story her website recently botched. It's boring, so don't click that, but she did have one line that reveals everything you need to know:

PR executive and PandoDaily founder Sarah Lacy has much more to say beyond Sean Parker's decency—for instance, did you know "Southern culture" is having a "big cultural moment" right now? Time for some free advertising, slathered in gravy.

Not content to simply invest money in tech companies, First Round Capital—which backs big names like Warby Parker and StumbleUpon—is going to write about them, too. The next step here is just have company execs writing their own articles—oh, wait.

From a new profile in Fast Company, penned, with much courage, by "veteran biz journo" Lydia Dishman: "As a former high school class president, captain of the soccer team, camp counselor, and consistent holder of the Girl Scout’s coveted best cookie seller designation, Morin’s a natural born leader."

Another Wired editor has been lured over to industry he once covered. Senior editor Michael Copeland will be heading up "content strategy" for Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm he wrote about just two months ago for Wired. Heckuva cover letter, Copeland. Welcome to the Startup Bros Club.

Pando, taken as a large green corpus, is generally tasteless. But is this a nadir? I think so: here's a post using the saddening death of famed journalist Michael Hastings to muse about a fucking startup.