PAULA NEAL MOONEY

DC Madam Deborah Palfrey Kills Herself - Was it really suicide, or murder? Shocking news of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's death leads people to Google - DC Madam Murder? by Paula Neal Mooney Here are the actual phone numbers on DC Madam's list that a federal judge agreed could be released to the public. Here's the DC Madam list of numbers in phone number order... Here's the DC Madam list of numbers in name order... Deborah Jeane Palfrey's website also had a list of zip files that contained a more complete listing of the DC Madam's client list of phone numbers, along with an explanation of why they were being released, but I see that's gone now. The net went crazy when actual names were expected to be derived from Deborah Jeane Palfrey's list -- and now it's sure to go crazy again today with the news of the DC Madam's death. DC Madam Murder - or Suicide? Reading the shocking news of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's death -- along with the rumored high-po...

YBF.com is not the Young Black and Fabulous blog that used to be on a blogspot.com address. No, the real Young, Black and Fabulous .com can be found at TheYBF.com -- that's because cyber-squatters realize the importance of all the Young, Black and Fabulous traffic that that site gets. Even TMZ.com -- TMZ!!!! -- linked to YBF's piece about Lauryn Hill being pregnant with her 5th child by a Marley man (hope it's true -- care for me, care for me, said you'd care for me ...) At least the crazy-popular site Young, Black and Fabulous is monetized. Rhymes With Snitch (who has a Google PageRank of 6 -- and also got a link from TMZ.com when he or she -- I think it's a she -- broke the El Debarge story ) is one of those webmasters that works hard but makes no money off their site from what I can see! I've emailed the Rhymes With Snitch lady to tell her to enable her post pages so that at least she'd have individual URLs, but she hasn't. It's not that I ...

by Paula Neal Mooney DontDateHerMan.com ...ah, what can I say? Tasha C. Joseph , site creator of Don't Date Him Girl is now launching a brother (or sister?) website of sorts called Don't Date Her Man . I was never a big fan of Don't Date Him Girl in the first place. Billed as a way for women to "warn" each other about cheating and no-good men, Don't Date Him Girl always smacked of mean-spiritedness to me. The first time I saw Tasha Joseph on TV was the other night, when she was interviewed on a segment of i-Caught , but I can't find the video interview of her anywhere. (Hit me up with a link, will ya, readers? Thanks!) The big problem I have with sites like DontDateHerMan.com is that they offer an easy way for people to lie and besmirch someone's good name. Kinda like the woman on i-Caught who was the victim of a another jealous woman who posted a bunch of evil stuff about her online -- the first woman sued the other woman and won. Other people wer...

by Paula Neal Mooney Atoosa Rubenstein has launched her much-awaited site , Atoosa.com Who is Atoosa and what's the big deal about her lauching Atoosa.com ? That's the same thing I wondered when I saw her mentioned in MediaBistro today, smarting that Atoosa has close to 44,000 MySpace friends. No doubt Atoosa.com will have a ton more readers than that. Basically everthing I've read thus far about this 35-year-old former editor-in-chief of Seventeen (a job she left to follow her bliss and focus on her web business!) and creator of CosmoGIRL! has me nodding my head in agreement that the next Oprah won't be birthed on TV, but on the web. Atoosa.com's launch has confirmed my own decision not to write a niche blog -- a blog focused tightly on one central topic -- though many folks have found success doing that. But me? I'm interested in too many topics to write singularly, and I don't want to segment my traffic into a bunch of little blogs. Besides, it...