'Net gossip's It rag?

Agencies and Marketing Execs:

• YouTube co-founder Steve Chen is pursuing other pastures at Google — news that's nearly a year old, but that wasn't well-known until recently.

Biz Buzz:

• The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation. Funds will go toward growing Wikimedia Commons, a free educational media repository.
• Professional content hosting site Joost has kicked the bucket; the company is restructuring.

Legal, Government and Regulation:

• In an effort to keep government regulation at bay, a group of ad industry trade groups have introduced new privacy principles for online behavioral advertising.

Mobile:

• The iPhone 3GS has reportedly boosted mobile YouTube uploads by 400%. It launched last Friday.

Publishing:

• Entertainment news and gossip is booming over the 'net. The category is currently led by Yahoo's celebrity gossip site, omg!.
• In partnership with Overdrive Interactive, Boston.com launched a Facebook app that enables users to watch and interact with Globe 10.0, its daily sports video show, right on their Facebook pages.

Social Networks:

• A report finds social network users claim to be concerned about privacy, but their behavior suggests otherwise.
• Russia apparently has the world's most engaged social networking audience.

User Experience:

• Users are loudly displeased at recent news that Pirate Bay would be going legit, Napster-style.