The Good

Simon Cowell has stepped in to offer Victoria Beckham a regular position on the American version of his X-Factor show, despite her performance being near-unanimously slated last week.

Victoria was branded ‘off-putting’ and a ‘failure’ by pretty much every celebrity and media blog going, but Cowell is reported to have ignored this astonishing amount of  criticism, offering Beckham a job just hours after the end of the show.

It’s believed the X-Factor boss has asked her to appear in four episodes on the judging panel of his American series, at an incredible one million dollars per show. It seems that for Cowell at least, the ratings that such a high profile celeb bring to the show are still worth more than the opinion of the online community and critics that go with it.

The Bad

N-Dubz star Dappy got in trouble this week for sending a BBC Radio 1 listener a threatening text message after she text the show calling him ‘repulsive’.

The most embarrassing aspect to the story is that late last year, N-Dubz joined Schools Secretary Ed Balls to launch a Government-backed campaign against cyber-bullying. Mr Balls, who’s now bound to be somewhat red-faced, was quoted as  saying that the group were great ambassadors in the fight against bullies, as part of anti-bullying week. The campaign also coincided with the release of N-Dubz track ‘RU Cyber Safe’, which was specifically written to promote safe social networking for teens via mobile phones and the Web.

The Ugly

News of this week’s terrifying earthquakes in Haiti has spread quickly throughout the Web and mainstream media, but sadly hackers have jumped on the opportunity to trick people wanting to donate online.

Scammers have been setting up fake charity sites and sending out spam that has fooled large numbers of Internet users into sending their money elsewhere. One particular email (originated from the UK) claims to come from the British Red Cross and even displays the official address in London, but directs users to a different domain when they try to click through.