Musicians have always gotten inspiration from their fans. Now, they may get cover art from them, too. DeviantArt, an art website with more than 1 million members, is launching a competition in which artists will design logos for a number of well-known bands. If an artist's work is chosen, his or her creation will become the musician's official logo, appearing on swag like T-shirts, hats and CD covers. Beginning this week, more than 35 big-name musicians spanning several musical genres -- including Alanis Morissette, Sum 41 and Jurassic 5 -- will have access to deviantArt artists.

The mobile phone appears to be making headway as an advertising delivery system as growing numbers of major marketers launch summer campaigns designed for the "third screen." Along with McDonald's, marketers including Masterfoods, Timex, Coca-Cola Co., Heineken and Johnson & Johnson are readying promotions that encompass everything from mobile games to ring-tone giveaways and text-in trivia contests and sweepstakes.

Banner ads, the Internet's favorite petri dish, have begun yet another round of experimentation, this time as shopping assistants. Late last month, Chitika, an advertising company based in Marlborough, Mass., began testing eMiniMalls, a technology that scans a Web page, chooses a product the reader might be interested in, then displays banner ads that are miniature shopping comparison pages, with prices, product reviews and links to merchants.

Action video games are renowned for serving up simulated gore and violence, but an intriguing mystery surfaced last week in which politics, business and simulated sex feature prominently as well.

A high school in Vail will become the state's first all-wireless, all-laptop public school this fall. The 350 students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans.

Television and music-publishing issues will take up some of the Senate's attention this week as lawmakers plan to examine digital TV, funding for public broadcasting and music licensing on the Internet.

Cian O'Donovan is not a photojournalist, but when he heard about the subway bombings not far from his home in London, he decided to try to photograph them. By the end of the day, Mr. O'Donovan had taken about 40 photos, most with his Nokia cellphone. Mr. O'Donovan posted 17 of his photos online at flickr.com, where they joined hundreds of photos of the aftermath of the bombings by nonprofessional photographers.

Internet users worried about spyware and adware are shunning specific sites, avoiding file-sharing networks, even switching browsers. Many have also stopped opening e-mail attachments without first making sure they are safe, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said in a study issued Wednesday.

Google is poised to release a version of its toolbar for the Firefox browser, according to information sent to developers of an open-source toolbar alternative. Although Google's toolbar--which provides users with easy access to advanced functionality such as spellchecking and translation--has been available for Internet Explorer for more than four years, this is the first version to appear for users of the Firefox browser, developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Users of open-source alternatives have, until now, used the GoogleBar--an independent project which emulates most of the Google toolbar features.

Like others in the industry, I've been keeping an eye on America Online lately. Only recently, with the launch of the new AOL.com beta site, has it been possible to really experience AOL as a nonsubscriber. This past weekend, though, the watching started in earnest. Wanting to check out the company's progress in moving beyond the walled garden, I tuned in to aolmusic.com's Webcast of the Live 8 concerts. Having just moved into a new house, we don't yet have cable TV. Thankfully (our priorities being what they are), we do have DSL. Online was our only possible medium. It …