There she is: TLC viewers help choose Miss America Instead of “Miss America”, think “American Idol.” If you have ever wished you could help pick the next Miss America, you’re in luck. A 16th pageant finalist who wins an online competition in which viewers vote for their favorite contestant will join the 15 contestants chosen by judges this year. The 87th pageant will air live on TLC on Jan. 26 at 8 p.m., its first year on the network following a brief run on CMT. The pageant will be held in Las Vegas at the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino and will be hosted by Mark Steines of “Entertainment Tonight.” Want to cast your vote? Visit www.tlc.com/missamerica beginning Friday following the first episode of the new series “Miss America: Reality Check.” TLC executives hope that the four-part reality show will generate excitement and viewers for the pageant, whose ratings have fallen so low that two networks, ABC and CMT, have dumped it over recent years.   Saudi blogger imprisoned for criticizing government Note to bloggers: If you’re going to criticize the government of the kingdom you’re living in, you may want to remain anonymous. That’s very well the advice Fouad al-Farhan of Saudi Arabia might give today. He is in the custody of Saudi authorities and holds the distinction of being the first known Saudi blogger to be arrested for violating the Middle Eastern kingdom’s laws. He’s also among the few Saudi bloggers to use his real name. The Saudi Arab News reports that al-Farhan has been held on charges that he “violated non-security regulations” since he was arrested Dec. 10. The family of the 32-year-old from Jeddah has asked the Saudi government’s Human Rights Commission for help. Meantime, al-Farhan’s friends are running his web site, which posts a letter that is supposedly from al-Farhan saying that he thinks he was arrested because he wrote about Saudi Arabia’s political prisoners.   Study: Cell phone chatters are clogging the freeways Not only does chatting on the cell phone while driving put you at higher risk of an accident, it also apparently slows you down. The average driver goes about 2 miles per hour slower in heavy traffic than drivers with their hands free, according to a new study from the University of Utah. The study observed students driving in simulators and found that those on cell phones were more likely to stay behind a slow car rather than change lanes to go faster. All in all, it took cell phone drivers about 3 percent longer to drive the same course as someone not on the phone. When you take into account the fact that 1 out of every 10 drivers is yakking on a cell phone, they become a significant road congestion factor. The study estimates that for the average driver in an hour-long commute each day, that could add up to about 20 hours longer each year to drive to work.   Wikia Search, a more democratic way to find things Like using Wikipedia to look up random facts? If so, you may want to try Wikia Search, which is scheduled to go online for the public next week. Wikia Inc. chairman Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the new search engine, says he’s not trying to go head to head with other search engines such as Yahoo or Google. Instead, he wants online volunteers to help improve search functions in the same way they make edits to Wikipedia entries. For example, those using the new search engine would make distinctions about whether a search for “Boston” was referring to the city or the rock band. Wikia Search, which has been tested over the past few weeks by invited users, won’t start out big. With between 50 million to 100 million indexed web pages, it is tiny compared to the large, well-established search engines.