Larry Magid steps in as guest host today with an interview with Ruckus CEO Michael Bebel. Ruckus is a free subscription service that lets college students legally download music, access Hollywood movies, create personal profiles and exchange and share downloaded tracks. Bebel explains the business strategy, which includes advertising as a revenue source.

On the heels of her recent guilty plea for misdemeanor assault, the supermodel talks to reporter Mark de la Vina about her brush with the law and her upcoming Fashion Week event in San Francisco.

With hints of country and rock, inspirational singer Chris Tomlin was nominated for two Grammy awards recently — Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album for “See The Morning” and Best Gospel Performance for his single “Made to Worship.” iTunes editors also named that album (”See The Morning”) Best Christian album of 2006.

Forget console games. Today, it’s all about PC gaming, specifically Windows Vista.

Jimmy Wales made online encyclopedia Wikipedia into perhaps the most famous wiki in the world. Now he’s turning his attention to Internet search. Wales is building a search engine using open source code from the Nutch and Lucene projects. The search results will be editable by humans, not determined by an algorithm. Can it work? Wales discusses the project with web editor Mike Bazeley and Internet reporter Elise Ackerman.

Dean and Nooch analyze the latest set of sales data for both console games and PC games.

Hip-hop historian and emcee KRS-One expounds on the many layers of hip-hop: its start, its supposed death, its globalization and its politics. This is the whole interview - so warning it’s long, but it’s interesting.

Peerflix is a peer-to-peer DVD trading company based in Palo Alto. We chatted with founder Billy McNair about changes at the company and where it’s headed.