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More dotcoms are shrinking their staffs. (Even WSJ.com, The Wall Street Journal’s online version and one of the Web’s biggest profit stars, announced layoffs this week). But Cahners Business Information boldly launches a new Web-related… Continued

In National News: Los Angeles Times former staff writer Ann O’Neill shifts to columnist. She now writes the “City of Angels” column covering social life. E-mail ann.oneill@latimes.com or fax at 213/237-0772 … Will Rodger, technology… Continued

Brill Media Holdings and Powerful Media are the latest big-name publishers to join forces. Under the deal, Inside.com publisher Powerful Media will exchange assets for a stake in Brill Media Holdings, parent of Brill’s Content… Continued

A recent partnership between multi-tier marketing company CASS Communications, Inc. and college TV network ZILO Networks will deliver original broadband programming to 2.9 million frisbee-tossing, beer-chugging college students. ZILO Networks include a college television network… Continued

Controversial talk-meister and gay-community-enemy Dr. Laura Schlessinger has been axed from Paramount Domestic Television’s line-up. “Good Friday came two weeks early for us,” said Cathy Renna, news media relations director for the Gay & Lesbian… Continued

Gail Nelson, a PR executive at a New York-based digital workspace provider, recalls a telephone request she fielded from a human resources colleague as one of the more unusual she’s received in her professional life.… Continued

Software maker MicroStrategy lays off 600 staffers in response to the weakening economy. The Vienna, VA-based software maker is still reeling from a U.S. District Court settlement of a suit that alleged CEO Michael Saylor… Continued

“If we win we’re going to riot. If we lose we’re going to riot. The police will just have to accept that.” These words, from a University of Maryland student to a TV reporter, hardly… Continued

Web Guru, author, and consultant Jakob Nielsen released an April 1 study (assuring us it was not a joke), saying that only 60% of corporate sites divulge basic information journalists need. Writes Nielsen, “Why spend… Continued

To address the fast-blurring line between Web content and advertising, the American Business Media Association has released the Editorial Code of Ethics and Guide to Preferred Practices on the Web. The pamphlet, available at americanbusinessmedia.com,… Continued