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Nov 06 2007 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Barry Diller, Facebook, 'Dog'...

-Barry Diller on splitting up IAC/InterActive Corp.: "I have always believed that our complexity and many mouthfuls of sentences to explain who we are and what our strategy is have hampered clarity of understanding with all our constituencies, including investors." Good save, dude. [NYT]

-Facebook is going to start letting you know what your friends are buying. [Ad Age]

-Duane "Dog" Chapman is making the rounds of cable-news chat shows to apologize for using a very nasty racial slur, repeatedly, on tape. [NYT, 6th item]

-Five newspaper chains are in talks to set up a national ad network. [ChiTrib via Romenesko]

-Only 1,700 people bothered to get refunds on A Million Little Pieces. [AP/Yahoo via Galleycat]

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