AP - Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid made a pitch Saturday to enlist bloggers as a Democratic force in upcoming elections, and said he'll ask Congress for stiffer reporting requirements for the president and the intelligence community.

AFP - Newspaper editors and publishers must face a future in which traditional forms of journalism will have to take into account the Internet, blogs and a wider involvement of the public at large, they were told this week.

Reuters - As the recording industry tries to block file trading of songs across peer-to-peer networks, blogs and other viral distribution channels, the major labels suddenly have a whole new piracy concern: music videos.