Yesterday's Liberty Media Q2 earnings call was liberally dosed with rather frank disclosures from chairman John Malone about potentially big business moves, including swapping its majority stake in Time Warner for AOL's dial-up business.

So they say, bad news is always a best-seller, that is the unfortunate nature of our business. However, getting it right is also important, and skewing facts to ensure a good story is simply poor form.

Read "Dilbert" in the Sunday Free Press comics? Of course you do. So here's big news. Artist Scott Adams is launching something very novel, with social media components, for Dilbert at Dilbert.com -- a first in the comics business.

As social networking trickles into the business world, Moli.com is working to become the go-to social media resource for small businesses. The West Palm Beach Web site launched last year as a place to manage multiple profiles.

Back from this week's mid-year media conference in New York for investors and analysts, I'm looking at the distressed newspaper business in a broader context. There is a little misery-loves-company when you look at troubles particular to magazines, yell