The end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 has been really busy, but that hasn’t kept me from finding the interesting bits for you…..here is a round up of what I found!!!

Articles:

MediaGuardian - US election boosts traffic for UK newspaper websites

YahooTech - Will Google and Microsoft Own the Web? (PC World)

Gigaon - Even Bigger Nightmare On Tech Street

New York Times - Music Games for iPhone Give Artists New Spotlight

MediaGuardian - Pull out of Project Kangaroo, broadcasters told

Mashable - My 2008 Predictions Rocked; So What’s On Tap for Next Year?

BBCNews - Phones and fines top media’s 2008

BBCNews - Duffy and Burke top 2008 charts

Mashable - Twitter Relaunches Blazing Fast People Search

Mashable - HOW TO: Simplify

MediaGuardian - UK housewives are world’s top internet surfers

Mashable - Make Your Own Online Newspaper With Feed Chronicle

Mashable - HOW TO: Give Back With Social MicroFunding in 2009

BBCNews - Who on earth is Matt Smith?

BBCNews - Hit series Damages returns to BBC

BBCNews - Electric dreams for pop in 2009

InformITV - TVBLOB develops BLOBbox to bring web to TV

InformITV - Long tail fails to stand up to online reality test

Blogs:

GadgetLabs - 3D Live Events Are Coming To a Theater Near You. Do You Care?

MediaMonkey - Who are these people? It’s the new cast of Skins

OrganGrinder - What should the media resolutions be for 2009?

OrganGrinder - The 10 Best US TV shows of 2008

PDA - The forecast for 2009: Amee’s Gavin Starks thinks the future is bright for clean tech

Websites:

Roomatic – Create a chat room with Tweets

Scrapplet – Quick website creation

Personal Branding Blog

Amee – The Worlds energy meter

FeedJournal – Create your own RSS newspaper and print it!

FeedChronicle – Create your own RSS newspaper Online