Federline is concerned Spears’s behavior may affect custody deal

Isaiah Washington: ‘There’s No Rehab for Homophobia’
The actor calls the story that he was in rehab “just some crap being put out by the network”

New TSA Blog Wants Your Airport Gripes
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has a new blog about airport security called the Evolution of Security. The blog says it is sponsored by the Transportation Security Administration to “facilitate an ongoing dialogue on innovations in security, technology and the checkpoint screening process.” The site’s blogger profiles include first names only. The Huffington Post says the new blog is only getting a mild response from passenger advocates and industry experts. The blog is getting a rather “blah” response from aviation analysts and passengers advocates who say it will do little to improve process or perception. http://www.tsa.gov/blog “This will just make it easier for them to receive complaints for them to ignore in the name of national security,” said David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association. In the blog’s initial post, TSA Administrator Kip Hawley said the goal is to provide a forum for the agency to explain why travelers must go through certain steps at checkpoints since interaction at airports is often harried and halted, resulting in “feedback and venting … circulating among passengers with no real opportunity for us to learn from you or vice versa.” “We will incorporate what we learn in this forum in our checkpoint process evolution,” Hawley wrote. “Our postings from the public will be reviewed to remove the destructive, but not touch the critical or cranky.” Terry Trippler, a Minneapolis-based airline expert, applauded the idea but said TSA “was in the right church, just not the right pew yet.” There are 400+ comments in a section called gripes and grins. Most of them look like gripes. There are many things to compalin about such as the seizing and/or copying of people’s hard drives at airports. The blog has claimed one victory so far — ending a requirement that made people remove all their electronics from carry-on bags. Posted in New Blogs Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

Automattic Raises $29.5 Million
GigaOm reported earlier today that WordPress firm Automattic has raised $29.5 million in a Series B Round of funding. The New York Times Co. is one of the investors in the blog software company. GigaOm says the funding will be used to hire engineers, expand product offerings and possibly add more social networking features. So what does Automattic need the money for? After all, from what I know of the business, Automattic has been bubbling around the break-even point for a while now. Matt explains that they are going to roll out newer, hosted services such as BBPress (forums), and will expand their other product offerings, such as Gravatar and the spam-protection service Akismet. The money will be spent to hire more engineers and build out a more robust infrastructure. That would be a start. Anne Zelenka made an impassioned case for using WordPress to build a social network, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some social features start to creep into WordPress.com as well. They just boosted their storage capacity to three gigabytes, which indicates that they are serious about allowing bloggers to add video and other multimedia content to their blogs. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has a post about the funding on his blog called Act Two. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

Kristy Swanson: ‘I’m Not a Homewrecker’
The ex-Skating star opens up about her scandalous romance, recent arrest and more

UPDATE: Britney’s Mom ‘Brokenhearted’ over Rift
After Lynne Spears receives a reportedly upsetting letter from her daughter, a family friend explains the tension

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