Online watchdogs are once again turning their attention to AOL, this time over the company's software, AOL 9.0.

So former Vice President Al Gore addressed a group of British TV execs yesterday in Edinburgh, Scotland and told them that while the Internet is a great democratizing force, TV remains the most influential form of media and people should have more control over its programming.

In case you have been living under a rock or something, blogging is now a big part of Americans' lives, or so says a survey by Pew Internet & American Life Project.

A Forbes.com essay--posted, taken down and then repackaged in less than two days--has once again shown that Web users can influence the mainstream media. At the same time, it also shows that the MSM can react quickly to online critics, but continues to be slow when it comes to interacting--or, in this case, explaining to readers why an article has gone missing from the archives.

So the forecasts for online ad spending just keep getting better and better, or at least the most recent one from JupiterResearch looks pretty good....

More than two weeks after AOL posted 20 million search queries of more than half a million members, the debacle has cost three people their jobs: Chief Technology Officer Maureen Govern, as well as two employees in the technology research division, have departed.

More than 34.6 million mobile subscribers logged onto the Web via their cell phones in June, according to Telephia, which tracks mobile audience metrics....

We know we're all multitasking more than ever--but can you prove it?

An eMarketer report suggests that marketers avoid a hard sell online when it comes to hawking drugs.

Get this: User-generated content sites--venues for photo-sharing, video-sharing, and blogging--comprised five out of the top 10 fastest growing Web brands in July 2006, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.