"Current is exploring better opportunities to distribute our content," Current TV spokesman Alex Dolan said on Friday. He declined to elaborate. A Yahoo spokesperson said the company does not comment on rumor or speculation.

Current TV, co-founded by Al Gore, is a San Francisco-based national cable and satellite channel that features video created by viewers.

"We are no longer accepting uploads to the Yahoo! Current Network, but would encourage you to upload your videos to another pod family. If you landed here with the intention of uploading to Yahoo! Current Driver, your piece should find a home in Current Speed. Yahoo! Current Traveler submissions will fit in nicely with Current Travel, and Yahoo! Current Action pods should go to Current Edge."

Kate began working as a copy editor at the Daily Record in July, after graduating from Lehigh University. She's been living in her uncle's apartment since then -- and is being booted out Dec. 1, when the lease is up. So the 22-year-old is on a quest to find an affordable apartment -- her first apartment -- in the Morris County area.

The service, which is called the Yahoo Current Network (video.yahoo.com/currenttv), was set to begin today with four channels. One section, called Current Buzz, will feature segments related to the news. It is produced by Madeleine Smithberg, a former executive producer of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Three other channels will relate to specialized topics: travel, action sports, and cars. Over time the companies hope to add more channels.

Each channel will have one professionally produced segment each day and 8 to 10 segments contributed by users.

Amateur videographers whose clips are chosen for the Internet service will receive $100. If the clips are also broadcast on Current's television network, the maker will receive between $500 and $1000. Videos that are not selected to be part of the Yahoo Current offering will be included on Yahoo’s broader site that includes user-contributed video.

Mamarazzi is a new blog devoted entirely to making fun of celebrity parents and those crazy things they do "because celebrity parenting is so easy to snark." It was born to the Blogosphere on April 30th and is the brainchild of several seasoned mommybloggers: Angie from Home Grown, Lisa from Nihaus, Lucinda from Suburban Turmoil, M'Kay from Petroville, Poppy from The Opiate of the Masses, and Susie from The Underpaid Kept Woman.

If MySpace was built on this concept of community, it only makes sense that marketers and advertisers should go with the flow to truly reach their target audience - and Nike's heeded that advice with their new Soccer campaign and profile. When asked for comment on their use of this marketing medium, Media Relations Manager Nate Tobecksen replied by email that though he wasn't at liberty to talk about the company’s specific marketing tactics, "Nike is always looking for new and interesting ways to interact with our consumers, and the appearance in MySpace.com is another example of that."

And Nike is not alone in the MySpace medium. Panasonic has produced profiles for their new Oxyride product and Oxymite character, and EA Games has done one to promote their new SSX On Tour game. The Discovery Channel has joined the bunch, collecting some 14,000 friends in the process. And the soon to be released film "Rent" is on the space too: right now it's registering about 34,793 friends, most of whom have probably toyed with the profile's interactive contents which include contests, polls, actor info, forums, downloadables and on and on.

"If you ever thought, 'TV really sucks ... or I could make a better show than that,' then you came to the right place," on-air host Shauntay Hinton told viewers.

At a gathering of television critics last month, the 57-year-old Gore said Current was "inviting this new generation empowered by digital tools -- of small and good cameras and laptop editing systems -- to actually make television."

"This generation wants to be in control of its media," said Gore, who served as President Bill Clinton's vice president from 1993 to 2001. "They want personalized media."

Further emphasizing viewer control over its programming, Current regulates how often it repeats individual pieces on the air according to audience feedback, as registered on the network's Web site (www.current.tv)