One of America's newest congressmen may owe his seat to blogs. A few weeks before a special election last month, the campaign manager for Kentucky Democrat Ben Chandler bought $2,000 in ads on these Web sites. It was a risky move. Blogs are personal, diary-like Web pages that are usually devoted to a particular topic, and often have a decidedly sharp point of view.

Slate editor at large Jack Shafer gives his opinion on why some blogs, like Gawker and Wonkette, aren't great ideas.

Website savemartha.com wants people to go to Kmart on Saturday and purchase Martha Stewart Everyday housewares in an effort to show solidarity with the disgraced domestic diva.

Predicting a broadcast universe in which "shock jocks" will be pushed onto satellite radio systems, fired radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge Clem was defiant Thursday in two live Internet appearances.

More Web sites are tracking their users' behavior to let advertisers serve targeted ads.

Twenty-four million dollars isn't bad for a feature film box office opening. But on a Wednesday? That was followed by $84 million the first weekend and $228 million in the first two weeks of the run, according to Exhibitor Relations. However you feel about the film, there's no denying it's been a success from a marketing perspective. Although I can't prove it -- I'd bet online marketing had a significant impact on those dramatic box office numbers.

Software giant Microsoft said Thursday that it is launching a wireless video delivery system for mobile devices in partnership with a pair of digital media content and applications makers.

In an effort to spur redevelopment, officials in San Jose, Calif., are going to install three wireless hotspots downtown. It's part of a game plan that has seen municipal officials in other parts of the country -- including New York -- offer free Wi-Fi access, particularly in parks.

America Online on Wednesday said it has signed an agreement with Covad Communications Group Inc. to sell high-speed Internet access and services that it hopes will be more profitable than earlier deals.

Setting aside their rivalries to fight unwanted e-mail choking cyberspace, leading Internet companies announced Wednesday they have sued hundreds of people suspected of sending unsolicited junk messages known as spam.