You may remember Diary's fearless expose of the light-fingered Mirror picture department, which shamelessly ripped off a picture of handbag-wielding Argentinian footballers from b3ta.com and entered it for an award. Now we have spotted another b3ta.com creation gracing mainstream media - Joel Veitch's rocking kitten creations. Trailers for Channel 4's new Sara Cox-fronted music show Born Sloppy feature the famous felines - but we're sure that in this case, C4 cleared their use first.

· BT Looksmart is dead, long live Looksmart. BT has backed out of yet another joint venture formed at the height of the boom by selling out to its partner in search-engine business, BT Looksmart. In 1999, when the company was formed, BT promised to sink £75m into the venture. If it did end up losing that much, then Looksmart - which paid £2.2m to take full control - has got the better end of the deal. All of which goes to show that, despite all the nonsense spouted in the boom times about a brave new world of partnerships, joint ventures are as difficult to manage in the online world as they are in the offline one.

· Barclay Knapp, the chief executive of NTL, who somehow held on to his job despite running up debts of £12bn and pushing the cable giant to the brink, was back in the public eye last week. With NTL about to re-emerge from bankruptcy, he was in far more ebullient mood at the Westminster Media Forum than when Diary last heard him speak. Gone was the haunted man bemoaning his role in laying off 8,000 people. In his place was the return of the consummate salesman. "Cable has promised a lot and failed to deliver for the past 10 years," he told us, before promising the moon on a stick, prompting the obvious question - how long does he want, exactly?

· The Independent on Sunday is for sale. No, not the newspaper (not yet anyway) but the domain name. Type in IndependentonSunday.co.uk and you can become the proud owner of the domain name of a once-proud newspaper. Further inquiries reveal that the name belongs to one Nick Johnson, who's happy to sell to the highest bidder. So if Associated, owners of the Daily Mail, want to get a bid in - they know where to go. That's if Diary hasn't got there first.

· Telecoms regulator Oftel was patting itself on the back last week for stimulating broadband take-up so that connections are growing at a faster rate than in other countries in Europe. Well done, you might think. But the self-congratulatory press release failed to point out that Britain still has the lowest broadband penetration among G7 countries, chiefly because it took so long to get BT to pull its finger out and reduce wholesale prices.

· Owen Gibson is new media editor of mediatheguardian.com