Idle Chatter: Leno, Microsoft, Gawker Walkout...

-Jay Leno will cover the salaries of 80 Tonight Show employees for the next week. Jon Stewart is fast becoming the only late-night host who's not taking care of his employees' finances.* [THR]

-Microsoft is planning a $200-million-plus advertising onslaught to keep Apple and Google from eating its lunch. [Ad Age]

-Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth is buying Reveille, the production company behind The Office and Ugly Betty. [FT]

-A federal judge has turned down Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's attempt to force 02138 magazine to take his personal information off the web. [NYT]

-Three bloggers quit their jobs and it makes headlines in The New York Times. [NYT]

-Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick on getting fired (reportedly) from the video site: "I've never just taken months off to play video games, read, go to museums, think, and travel. It's like I always have this undercurrent of work." Yes, it's called "having a job." [Jakob and Julia]

*UPDATE, 2:58 p.m.: As several readers have pointed out, the original wording of this post made it look like Jon Stewart was, in fact, the only late-night comedian not paying his staff through the strike. In fact, I was merely tweaking my own nose for my since-retracted report that Stewart was paying his staff -- the joke being that of course I would pick the guy who turned out not to be doing it. But since the irony wasn't coming across, I changed it.