Idle Chatter: Glenn Beck, Harvey Weinstein, more

-Facebook is rolling out a new feature, Connect, that will allow users to carry over their networking onto affiliated sites. The company is hoping like hell not to touch off another backlash like the one that greeted the introduction of Beacon a year ago. [NYT]

-Glenn Beck's new Fox News program will debut in time for the inauguration of President Obama. [TVNewser]

-Rumor of the day: Is Condé Nast (which owns Portfolio) planning to replace Vogue editor Anna Wintour with the editor of Vogue's French edition? That's what Gawker says. And while it's JUST A RUMOR, It's worth noting that the company does tend to save big personnel changes for just after the holidays. [Gawker]

-A Caribbean resort operator is suing Alpha Media Group, claiming that the publisher breached its end of a deal to put the Maxim brand on a chain of resorts in the Dominican Republic. [NYP]

-National Geographic Channel has become the first client for a new second-by-second viewership data service Nielsen is offering, using the data from set-top cable boxes owned by Charter Communications. [WSJ]