So, having been plying YouTube with my mis-named One Minute Video Reviews for a few months, my *ahem* talents have been recognised, and I'm going to be on the BBC. Their new Sunday morning show, Something for the Weekend, features a lot of cooking, and a little bit gadgetry, which is where I come in.

I was on last week, talking about the Motorola jacket and some MP3 goggles. Imagine my horror when Tim Lovejoy ignored all that amazing technology, preferring the Dr Who Cyberman helmet. No taste.  So, this week, I'll be talking about the TV favourite 'Toys for Christmas', and will perhaps make a few more appearances before it ends in December.

So, there you have it. Shiny Media creating the Stars of Tomorrow. Watch out Strictly Come Dancing.

Check out the Original Cyberman helmet review here:

We are all avid readers of the PRBlogger round here and we get very excited when he namechecks us. He (he works for Edelman, by the way) has done it again today. Apparently Edelman has teamed up with Technorati to develop a method of working out who the most influential bloggers are in the UK.

We're pleased to say that in there at number four is our very own Tech Digest. Can't quite see how Shiny Shiny didn't make the list, especially as using the Technorati criteria it would be number seven. But as someone who is constantly compiling blog lists, I know what a nightmare it is to be comprehensive.

For the record, though, Shiny Shiny is the second most linked to UK blog, while Tech Digest is the third - using this criteria.

Interesting to note too that most of the top ten blogs are at least three or four years old. Also that it doesn't include Mashable and Liveside, both of which are Brit blogs and would surely be in the top ten.

So YouTube sells to Google for $1.65 billion, not bad work for a start-up that's only been going 10 minutes. The venture capitalists must be rubbing their hands in glee. To be fair, it's no less than YouTube deserved. Over the past year or so it's proved to be a massive source of inspiration, creation and - yes entertainment - to all of us here in Shiny towers.

But I can't help thinking that it might be all down hill from here for the revolutionary online video service. Yes, the name YouTube may survive (though personally I quite like GooTube as an alternative), but I can't imagine that all copyright owners will be so lenient on their content appearing gratis on YouTube now that it's owned by a much larger, and wealthier, organisation rather than a relatively small private company.

Of course the big challenge for Google is how to make money from YouTube (by the way where does this leave its own Google Video service?) Sure there's Google Adsense, but how exactly will these ads work out the context of the video - I suppose it will have to rely on the category tags?

Amazingly, when we talk to some advertisers they still tell us that they don't want to be associated with user generated content, beacuse of the perceived lack of editorial control. However there's only so long they can stick their head in the sand on this one.

You Tube has consistently been in the Top 5 of the world's most trafficked websites over the past six months or so. And where viewers go advertisers are sure to follow. Which I think in someways is a bit of a shame. But then with hosting costs for YouTube running into millions of dollars each month, it needs to get the money from somewhere if it's to remain the internet phenomenon it is at present.

Oh how I love the Daily Mail. What a splendid newspaper. No really. Its online offering is now very good to the point where a US-exiled liberal friend of mine confessed to me the other day that after the Gruniard, it is his first online stop for UK news. If the Fleet St gossip is right too the Mail's site is really starting to take off and could well become one of the biggest UK online portals.

So the paper does itself no favours when it lets its columnists write utter shit like this. Yep, Keith Waterhouse, a man who is guaranteed a place in heaven for penning the wonderful Billy Liar, has a pop at Googlers (whatever they night be) and Bloggers who he argues don't have an original thought between them.

Mmm odd that when there is a great deal of talk in PR circles about how blogging is setting the news agenda and it is national newspapers who are pinching all the blogger's stories.

Another priceless classic is '

'They never acknowledge original authorship, believing as they do that googling has outmoded the law of copyright.'

Which paper do you write for Keith? is it the Daily Mail which very rarely links out to stories on other sites yet quite happily claims them as its own?

Like the story it ran the other day on the Fembot for sale on eBay. A story which first appeared on our blog Bayraider and was the result of our journo spending hours trawling the site looking for goodies.

Ultimately with Keith it boils down to the fact that the number of people who are interested in his tablets delivered from on high, is dwindling.

Personally I prefer to read opinions that aren't just ill-informed rants (which ironically he says is true of bloggers) but Keith everyone has a right to an opinion, even you.

Trashionista - our top books for women blog - is joining in Buy a Friend a Book week. It is a top idea that's suported by some cracking sites.

Personally I'd force all my friends to read this and this. You can say which books you'd choose over on the site.

It's Bafab- Buy a Friend a Book- week here on Trashionista, starting now! I'm resisting the urge to say "Bafab will be fab!" but truth be told, I'm not resisting very hard...because it will be fabulous!

So what have we got in store for you for this very special week? Well, a Bafab book bonanza with fabulous free books to give away EVERY DAY, plus special guest bloggers whose names (and book covers) you might well recognise...for starters!

Oh yes, it's all going to be happening here on Trashionista, so stay tuned, keep your eyes peeled, don't go anywhere, and all those other old cliches that mean you really won't want to miss this!

You can also check out the other great sites running Bafab giveaways and excusives (but hurry right back!): A Reader's Journal, Bookblog, Front Street Reviews, Life's Weirder than Fiction, Keeper of the Snails, West of Mars, Write with Karen.

Hey we are launching again.

Brandish, Shiny Media's new site dedicated to The Coolest Stuff in the World for blokes is now live and kicking. It'll feature must-have gadgets, fashion that won't make you look like a metrosexual arsehead, illegally fast cars, fine Cuban cigars, that sort of thing.

Only the best stuff gets in – Brandish is like an exclusive gentlemen's club, but without the high-backed, red leather chairs, smug ex-Eton schoolboys and extortionate membership fees.

It is edited by Ollie Irish, top pie-eater , freelance gadget-a-soarus and one time Editor of Stuff Magazine.