We wish we had said it first. The Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal made the observation Monday that investor Carl Icahn has adopted the Securities and Exchange Commission as his personal blog.

CBS announced today that is acquiring CNET Networks Inc., for $1.8 billion, at $11.50 per share.

It’s not only his day job that is drawing attention to Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.

Sarah Lacy reports on technology for Business Week, but on Sunday, technology was her worst enemy.

As she interviewed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival, the audience was reporting on her questions and style by using Twitter, and their reviews weren’t good.

They were pioneers in the worlds of media, publishing and entertainment who made it to the top - and who became pals along the way.

Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo has put a harsh spotlight, perhaps too late, on the company’s board.

Kara Swisher, writing on All Things Digital this morning, predicts that the directors’ response to the unsolicited buyout attempt may simply be inertia.

Being pursued by Microsoft hasn’t deterred Yahoo from its own pursuits of smaller fry.

Yahoo announced yesterday that it had paid $160 million for Maven Networks, a firm that sells video-management systems for online advertising. Maven’s customers include such major media outfits as Gannett, Scripps and Fox News.

Can Google maintain the company motto - “Don’t be evil” - while building a powerful lobbying machine?

That’s just one of the challenges facing the internet giant. Another is Microsoft, a competitor not only on the web, but in the courts and the halls of Congress.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. may never sleep.

Gates, 57, is a Harvard professor as well as an author and editor of a shelf-load of books. He’s also the host of African American Lives, a PBS series on genealogy that begins its second season next week.

A consortium of investors, led by Barry Rosenstein’s Jana Partners, is trying to seize control of the CNET Networks board.

Jana has joined Alex Interactive Media and the VC firm Spark Management in an effort to increase the size of the board from eight directors to 13. The group plans to nominate seven people at the next shareholders’ meeting.

The group has also filed suit in Delaware Chancery Court, to stop CNETfrom rejecting its proposals.

In a press release issued today after the New York Times published a story about the dispute, Rosenstein said, “This effort is about taking an underperforming company and increasing shareholder value by building on its top-notch editorial talent and premier internet assets.” .