The Huffington Post is a group celebrity blog conceived and published by Ariana Huffington. Public figures as diverse as Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Mike Nichols, David Mamet, Ellen DeGeneres, John Cusack, and James Pinkerton have signed on. The site went live today and the posts are pouring in. The range of topic and attitude is breathtaking. Hilary Rosen is in the bunch, and her inaugural post is a rant against Steve Jobs and the closed iTMS/iPod system. You heard me—Hilary Rosen has become a consumer advocate. "But keeping the iTunes system a proprietary technology to prevent anyone from using multiple (read Microsoft) music systems is the most anti-consumer and user unfriendly thing any god can do," she writes. "Is this the same Jobs that railed for years about the Microsoft monopoly? Is taking a page out of their playbook the only way to have a successful business?" Ooh, I like this new feisty dominatrix role for Hilary.

But author and journalist Richard Bradley is quick to take the whip out of Hilary's hands. "I mean, why is Rosen complaining about this?" Bradley fumes. "As head of the RIAA, no one was more fervently anti-consumer than she. For years, Rosen defended the interests of the big record conglomerates, a group of companies which treated its customers with such contempt that millions of young people simply took to stealing music. Rosen doesn't exactly have a lot of street cred with us consumers."

Now this could get interesting, in the most unexpected place. I've subscribed to the Huffington Post blog feed. (Feed links here.)