Wesfarmers hacked by Cial-s scourge. Supermarket and DIY conglomerate Wesfarmers appears to be winning the grocery wars but struggling when it comes to spam attacks on its web server. Yesterday, an innocent Google search for “Wesfarmers” returned an initial link to a page headlined “Cial-s dosage” containing virus-ridden ramblings promoting the notorious erection progenitor.  Although the dodgy link appeared to be partially cleared up this morning, Google’s cache has preserved the carnage.

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Interestingly, the sixth-highest Google result for Wesfarmers is the much less spam-worthy Crikey category page. — Andrew Crook

Spread a bit thin? New News Ltd writer Matt Preston is across so many publications he can hardly fit them in one tweet:

@MattsCravat: Shooting pic 4 my column in sexy new food section for HeraldSun/CourierMail/AdelaideAdvertiser/DailyTelegraph/WestAustralian today. Gulp!!!

Sunrise dishes up a plate of KRudd for brekkie

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will appear in a weekly segment on the revamped Sunrise. Executive producer Adam Boland told TV Tonight, the Prime Minister would answer live viewer questions each week. — TV Tonight

Google has a bat at sports broadcasting

Google Inc will broadcast a major global sport on YouTube for the first time with the third season of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament. — BusinessWeek

Lamb still cooking the competition for Australia Day

When Sam Kekovich’s latest pro-lamb Australia Day address was unveiled last week, a fair bit of the debate centred on whether it was time to change the strategy. I’d say the behaviour of competitors proves that this is an idea with a lot of legs left in it. — Tim Burrowes, mUmBRELLA

“Hello, Microsoft? This is 2008 calling: we want want our tech trend back.”

Microsoft Corp, whose mobile version of Windows has lost market share to Apple Inc and Google Inc, will try to drum up excitement for the software by introducing its own phone. — Bloomberg

Huh. News aggregators really are killing newspapers. Sorry, guys.

Aggregator sites — especially Google — really are hurting newspapers as more people increasingly simply skim the news headlines without bothering to click to linked newspaper websites, a new report finds. — Editor & Publisher

Fairfax pushes a familiar screed

Fairfax’s National Times seems to have picked a winner with the topic of bossy mums with huge prams, but I think that their reheating schedule could do with some fine tuning. — Dave Gaukroger, Pure Poison

Why I did a nudie magazine shoot

When you see my friends and me nude in New York’s Time Out this week, don’t assume I’m making a big statement on behalf of my sex, or presume I’m trying to be an example to anybody else. — Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon