Steve Case is not ashamed of taking the fall for the merger of America Online and Time Warner, perhaps one of the greatest failed deals in corporate history.

United Talent Agency (UTA), which represents entertainment clients like Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, and Jim Carrey, is delving into the video game marketing world. The company hired former GameSpot and GameSpy executive Jonathan Epstein to strike deals between brands, video game publishers and entertainment industry clients.

In the haphazard world of instant messaging and dashed-off e-mail messages, where "kk" isn't a typographical mistake but just the latest bit of Internet slang (it stands for kays, or O.K.), does anyone really care about style and grammar anymore?

MSN on Tuesday evening is expected to quietly begin testing new features for searching and syndicating blogs, in a nod to the online publishing format.

Online career firm Monster was one of the first dot-com companies to advertise during the Super Bowl, and it scored a touchdown with its ''when I grow up'' spot in 1999. In what could be a sign things have come full circle, Monster is taking a pass on Super Bowl XXXIX, in favor of, of all things, Internet advertising. Monster unveiled a marketing deal last week with Internet Broadcasting Systems, which operates news and information Web sites for TV stations across the country.

Recognizing that Google's search engine can become a repository for far too much information, McAfee this week released an updated version of its Foundstone SiteDigger security tool that helps enterprises identify damaging information that may be exposed on the Web.

New York City's venerable alternative newsweekly, the Village Voice, has launched a redesign of its Web site that places all content into seven major sections, which will be updated daily. Executives believe the changes will help increase the site's online ad revenues by 50 percent over the next year.

The Internet will fall victim to a "devastating attack'' sometime in the next decade, and governments will use networked devices to increase their surveillance of individuals.

A civil-rights group will try to deflect an "asteroid" from hitting bloggers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said yesterday it would defend bloggers' right to protect anonymous sources who disclosed that Apple would release a product code-named "Asteroid."

New York Times executives have debated the merits of charging users for access to its flagship NYTimes.com Web site, though the company said it has no immediate plans to do so.