Because of apartment broker and job-list spamming, Craigslist will begin imposing a nominal fee in the New York City website area and in other large cities.

John Thorne, a Verizon exec, has joined the chorus of telecom voices decrying content providers who get a “free ride” using the pipes the telecoms and cable companies have built, according to a Washington Post report.

The advantages of such a highly publicized beta: Lots of people noticing the quirks you might have missed in testing.

What limits, if any, should be placed on journalist who blogs on their own personal sites?

Lots of mean people said hurtful things on the Washington Post blog, so the Post said, and in response the Post has turned off comments for the Post.Blog.

Confusion and politics figure in the dust-up between the newspaper, its website, and bloggers who have blasted the paper’s ombudsman and its political editor over their views on a column appearing on the Post’s website.

Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet will be in Washington on Wednesday. He was asked to speak at a House Committee meeting but blew them off to go hang out at the White House. It’s something about some Presidential Medal of Freedom. Anyway, while’s he not going to talk to Congress, he did send them a letter and it’s posted on Google’s blog.

Blogs have become quite the topic for debate in recent days for a number of reasons including credibility, integrity, quality and accuracy. Political blogs are tour de force for internet political circles and some new ones are showing up on the radar after working on the recent scandals in Washington D.C.

TechWeb brings us a gloom and doom research report stating that business to business trade media will see print ad spending decrease due to blog advertising, sponsorship and content opportunities.

The newspaper joins its magazine partner Newsweek in placing links to bloggers commenting on stories appearing on the Post’s web site.

A story from the Associated Press has some great sound bites from mainstream media and others about RSS.

Hot off PR Newswire, Washingtonpost.com is going to start pushing ads in its RSS feeds starting July 15. From the release …

My step mom is in town, so yesterday we drove for 10 hours through Northern Washington (went across the Cascades). Stunning scenery.

Law enforcement officials in 500 counties across the United States agree that production and abuse of methamphetamine is an epidemic that deserves the same or more attention than marijuana and even domestic security and terrorism. The White House says that is an exaggeration.

Deciding which search engine provides your site search can be a big deal, especially if you are a media giant with broad appeal. Selecting a particular engine to provide your search is similar to choosing sides.

Washington Mutual announced that it is has entered an agreement to buy Providian Financial in a stock and cash transaction totaling nearly $6.45 billion.

The growth of the U.S. economy slowed down to 3.1% in the first quarter, its slowest rate in two years.

Click Fraud is a growing problem for Adsense and other Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising programs. The challenge that Google has with Adsense and click fraud is that they’re at risk of it happening from a number of angles.

Lisa Baertlein of AP weighs in with another story about the growing interest in paid search ads. The piece seems balanced and accurate.

An interesting article from the Washington Post takes a look at what makes Google such a success.

A judge in Loudoun County Virginia sentenced spammer Jeremy Jaynes to nine years in prison in the first spam-related felony prosecution in the U.S.