We're back from a four-day weekend of sorts. The Wired News team was off camping in the wilderness near Santa Cruz for a couple of days. Many thanks to Scott for filling in here on the Monkey Bites blog while I was gone. And now, the Morning Reboot.
Google signs up with Warner Music and Sony BMG to offer both free and paid download music videos on the Google Video site. YouTube also signed video distribution deals with Universal Music, Sony BMG and the CBS television network. [TechCrunch]
Add it up: Google and YouTube, who were rumored to be in acquisition talks last week, will likely announce an acquisition today. [NYT DealBook]
The Google Blog was hacked this weekend. A fake post announcing the demise of the company's Click-to-call advertising plan was published, then quickly removed.
Another newspaper moves to the citizen journalism model. [BuzzMachine]
SSIA: Comedian Dimitri Martin is selling Microsoft Vista. Oddly, Flash is required to view the site. [Kurt Shintaku]
