When a celeb is carrying an unborn child, the press and their fans want to be first to know when the baby arrives.  The demand for the first photo of the newborn, along with the fanatics going to extreme legnths to share in the experience makes celebs and their handlers extra cautious about letting the details leak.

Grammy winning singer, Erykah Badu on the other hand brought some 4,000 fans and friends alike with her into the delivery room yesterday for the birth of her baby girl. How? By using her Twitter account to give real-time updates, including "Morning, I'm in labor." and "Home birth, no painkillers, about five hours, she was a little past due date, but I didn't mind waiting. Breath."    

Now that is one gifted multi-tasker! 

Alongside Badu was her boyfriend and father of the child, up-and-coming rapper/producer Jay Electronica. Jay, too, was providing his followers with updates in the form of 140 character tweets. 

I think the Twitterverse has welcomed it's first child, unless there is another real-time Twitter birth that I am no aware of. The baby was given the name Mars, definitely a different name but at least they didn't start the baby's name with an @ symbol. Her short name, just four letters, will allow them the use of 136 characters for future tweets as well.  

YouTube, the Web site that made a chubby guy with headphones a star, seems to be bored with making the Chocolate Rain singers of the world into pseudo-celebs.

It is being reported that the video Web site owned by Google is closing in on a deal with a roster of real celebrities. Like the ones I hang out with, not some grown man who wears a Tron costume.

The William Morris Agency, home of Denzel Washington and Clint Eastwood, and YouTube are rumored to be closing in on a deal. The language of the deal is boring , so I'll just say this: look for stars really big f'n stars to be appearing on the pages of YouTube very soon.

Chocolate Rain got 33 million views, imagine if it was WMA client Bill Cosby singing that tune how many people would have wasted four minutes of their work day watching that.  

Yesterday, the best band named after an Austrian Archduke, Franz Ferdinand released their latest album, Tonight. Now that the album is out, the band's members are doing interviews again. Something they tried to avoid while creating this, their third album.

Alex Kapranos the band's frontman spoke with New York magazine yesterday to discuss among other things, interviews. More specificially interviews that end up on...the Internet.

Alex tells New York:

it was our decision not speak to the press while we were writing. But when we ended up accidentally giving an interview, we would say things and they'd get picked up and exaggerated... Especially on the internet. The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Never before have I agreed with a guy from Glasgow than I do with Alex's comparing the Internet to a girl's locker room. 

Gossip? Check. Mean remarks about someone's weight? Check. Half naked girls? Check. Fully naked girls? Check.

Yup, you Alex are a wise man. This place is a girl's locker room. A girl's locker room that I can walk into and not get thrown out of.

If last week's events in Washington, DC brought you hope for a new America, than today's news of the box office results should have been a reality-filled smack in the face. 

While millions of Americans chose to do something the country has never done by making an African-American president, over the weekend millions of Americans chose to do something the country always does - watch really bad movies. 

Take a look at the box office numbers . Go ahead, I'll be the guy waiting right here with the disappointed yet not surprised smirk on his face. Are you back yet? Great. Let's move on. 

Did you notice what was on the top of that list? Yes, a movie called Paul Blart: Mall Cop. The number one movie in America is about a fat man on a Segway protecting a mall. Meanwhile over here in Hollywood, where I live they are passing out trophies to movies like Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler but the rest of America is just caught up in the mall cop craze. Really?

I'm an optimist. I saw what optimism did for Barack Obama. I also saw what Barack Obama did for his favorite baseball team's gear, sales of White Sox hats are up. Way up. 

When you want to find the latest pictures of Hollywood socialites and talentless divas at their worst, with childish white writing paintbrushed on their faces, you turn to Perez Hilton. 

When you want to find out the latest news from the tech industry, you turn to...Perez Hilton? What?

Apparently, the blogger who attracts millions of girls who should be doing something productive with their days took some time out from drawing on Lilly Allen's face to read the front page of Yahoo!  

Today, Hilton posted the news that Intel would be cutting 6,000 jobs. Unfortunately he didn't give us his expert analysis on why the chip maker had to turn to massive lay offs. That would have been worth the read, sure it would have included use of the words LOL and Eww and BFF. 

Yesteday he became the first Black President, today the word is that he will become the first Blackberry toting President. In the days following his election, there was discussion that President Barack Obama would have to part ways with his beloved Blackberry once he took office.

Several news sources, today however are reporting that Obama will be able to use a Blackberry. 

It won't be the old Blackberry that he was spotted using through the campaign, he will be receiving a brand new handheld device. Just like all those gun carrying secret service agents who follow him around everywhere he goes, Obama's new Blackberry will be very protected featuring all the security encryption needed for the most powerful man in the free world. 

While he is getting to keep his Blackberry, reports are saying that he will no longer be able to communicate via instant message. That's a shame, he could have brought peace to the world simply through using emoticons.