To the surprise of no one, blogger Melissa McEwan has also left the John Edwards campaign. Her former colleague, blogger Amanda Marcotte, resigned Monday in the face of pressure from Catholic League president Bill Donohue.

After more than a week of relentless pressure from the right wing, blogger Amanda Marcotte has resigned from John Edwards' presidential campaign.

Google again has found itself in an awkward situation stemming from copyright infringement but, this time, the allegations aren't related to video-sharing site YouTube. Rather, Google apparently sold pay-per-click ads to other Web companies that are accused of inducing consumers to download copyrighted films, according to an article in today's Wall Street Journal.

EMI Group is considering allowing online music stores to sell digital downloads of tracks in its catalog in MP3 format, according to a report in today's Wall Street Journal.The news is coming the same week that Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs made headlines by calling on record companies to allow iTunes to sell tracks without the built-in restrictions that limit users' ability to transfer the music to portable players.

The current crop of Democratic presidential candidates have made it clear they intend to harness the Web this election cycle. They've posted videos on YouTube, conducted online chats and taken out ad campaigns on blogs, among other efforts.

Today's Wall Street Journal reports that Google and MySpace have never closed the $900 million, three-year pact for Google to power searches on MySpace and serve display ads on the site. That article comes on the heels of a post in Techcrunch Friday stating that some executives thought this summer's initial agreement was struck "too hastily" and were pushing for changes in the terms.

This year, the majority of Super Bowl advertisers also bought pay-per-click search ads, according to a new study by search engine marketing firm Reprise Media. But did traffic to advertisers' sites increase? The results appear mix

Viacom last week demanded that YouTube remove 100,000 video clips, but did little to investigate how many of those clips it actually owned. One result: YouTube this weekend purged some completely legitimate user-generated video that had the misfortune of sharing keywords with Viacom content.

Negotiations between Viacom and Google's YouTube have faltered, prompting Viacom to demand today that YouTube remove about 100,000 clips from its site.

Google Wednesday posted fourth-quarter profits of more than $1 billion, leaving analysts cheering, even as Wall Street reacted with caution. In fact, the stock dipped this morning, apparently due to concerns about Google's increased investments and higher payments to affiliates.