In a move that signifies the promise and potential of the weblog, AOL is reported to be acquiring Jason Calacanis’ Weblogs Inc., for as much as $35 million. The partnership could indicate that blogging is to become a powerful medium that will blur the boundaries of mainstream traditional media and citizen journalism.

The maker of Madden NFL and NBA Live videogames had been accused of depriving workers of overtime pay in a class-action lawsuit.

Google’s Board of Directors unanimously elected Princeton University’s President and Professor of Molecular Biology, Shirley M. Tilghman, to join their ranks due to her reputation as a pioneer in academic research.

Another month, another drop, as the average cost-per-click for paid search terms decreased from August to September.

The San Diego firm Wireless Facilities is a partner in Google’s bid to provide San Francisco with a free Wi-Fi network.

Former president of Warner Brothers Online will leave Yahoo to rejoin Time Warner as president of media ventures for HBO.

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel hasn’t found much to interest him within Google’s recent developments.

After learning the fate of Jeeves, the long serving butler mascot of Ask Jeeves fame, a number of bloggers have banded together to try to resurrect the affable chap from the dotcom dustheap.

Matt Cutts of Google posted: By the way, there’s another quote from me in that Red Herring story…

“Markets are conversations” That phrase comes from the Cluetrain Manifesto and appears frequently in blog postings and comments.

Some of Unveil Technologies’ intellectual property pertaining to speech recognition has been purchased by Microsoft.

Things will be a bit quiet here until the weekend as I’m on the road. Meanwhile, take a look at the results of the Technorati/Edelman blog survey that was conducted late last month.

Latest rumor, as reported on Jason Kottke’s site: Weblogs.com sold to Verisign? Note: this is different than weblogsinc.com, which WAS sold to AOL yesterday.

There’s a long way to go for the music industry to work out the kinks associated with the digital age-an age that caught the industry by surprise, causing it to scramble for adjustment while trying to work with outdated business models.

Ya gotta love it. Someone starts a blog on a Google property to save the logo of another search engine. A former employee of “The Butler” started a blog called Save Jeeves to rescue the beloved butler character from oblivion.

Phishing and identity theft have been costly to many victims, and AOL wants to help its members combat the threats.

Over on the Yahoo! Search blog, Paul says: “In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with a loyal and growing following.

When you wake up on exam day, one of two things is going to happen. Well, yes, you’re going to pass or fail. But what I’m thinking of comes before that, and has a lot to do with how you perform on exam day.

The launch of Nokia’s Internet Tablet, a wireless web browsing platform, won’t happen now until the fourth quarter, 2005.

Online fashion mag Glam.com kicked off the first blog network dedicated exclusively to fashion. The fashionable Internet destination looks to have everything except “Sex in the City” reruns and now they’ve added this fashion oriented blog network.

Adam Engst, an AdWords client, says he received notice, first from Google and then from Apple, that terms trademarked by Apple could not be used in his EU AdWords campaign, an announcement he found more than a little confusing.

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