Mike Mitchell, the artist who created the now-iconic “I’m With CoCo” image of Conan O’Brien that has circulated through Facebook profile pictures and blogs since NBC’s The Tonight Show scheduling controversy, told TMZ that he’s been paid by Conan’s producers for the right to use the image…

A t-shirt isn’t just a cotton garment, it’s a form of communication, a personal billboard that lets you get a message out to the world in a medium that offers the minimum of effort. Whether your geek tendencies lean towards gaming, Apple, space, film or social media…

One of the astronauts currently in residence on the International Space Station is using Twitpic to send some spectacular imagery of our home planet back down to us Earthlings (that’s Mt. Kilimanjaro as seen from space at right). It’s the next logical step now that the first real-time tweet from …

After US Airways flight 1549 emergency landed in New York’s Hudson River last January, citizen journalism provided the first on-the-scene reporting , thanks to Janis Krums’ infamous Twitpic of the crash. More citizen journalism from David Martin resulted in the following time-lapse video embedded below, of the Airbus A320 aircraft …

A strong earthquake (magnitude 6.5) hit off the coast of Northern California today, breaking windows and taking out power lines in some areas. The quake hit at 4:27 pm PT, with the epicenter around 25 miles from Eureka. Being a Saturday with most of the news media not at work, it was…

Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked your favorite Twitter photo-sharing service . Is your favorite service not represented — or not high enough! — in…

Open Web Awards Nominations will remain open until 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, November 15th. Submit your nominations here . The growth of multimedia content continues apace on the web, and 2009 is a year in which we saw Flickr’s 4 billionth photo and YouTube reach an astonishing 1 billion video views per day . …

Although we expected Larry Johnson to be disciplined for his inflammatory comments on Twitter several weeks ago (which he was ), we can’t say we saw this twist coming: the Kansas City Chiefs have released the former Pro Bowl running back. The move comes after a petition of fans asking for the …

San Francisco’s famous Bay Bridge is being shut down by the California Highway Patrol in both directions. According to the San Francisco Chronicle , “pieces of the cantilever section section fell during the late-afternoon commute.” Interestingly enough, Twitter was first on the scene, as the commuter Joe Marshall ( …

Not long ago, we received several tips that the popular Twitter-based photo sharing site TwitPic was blocked in China. The trigger for this seems to be a gas explosion in central Beijing that occurred less than 24 hours ago. We’re still trying to piece together the series of events that …