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The Tennessean covers the story of a state rep who has taken to blogging — and offending many of his colleagues in the process. Rep. Stacey Campfield has been taking a beating over his blog. The Knoxville Republican’s Internet postings about goings-on at the state Capitol have been called less than ”outhouse worthy” by one…

 PayPal Joins Micropayment Parade Robin Good: “PayPal is extending its micro-payments service to support online commerce of low-cost digital content. The digital content to be covered by the new PayPal offering will include news articles, video games, online greeting cards, mobile phone content, and music.” White Paper on Micropayments PaidContent points to a white paper…

ConsumerReports.org has hit the 2 million subscriber mark.  This article discusses how they achieved it. [via PaidContent]

PaidContent draws attention to a potential sleeper issue for Internet content providers, aggregators, and readers: how far can caching go?  The post involves a lawsuit against the Internet Archive (a tremendous service that let’s you look back at what a web site looked like years ago).

Robert Scoble thinks so.  He argues that Bloglines beats out Technorati because it has more links.  Now, Bloglines may indeed be better than Technorati — I simply haven’t examined it carefully enough to comment.  But you can’t focus solely on quantity at the expense of quality.  All the links in the world don’t matter if…

ClickZ: PubSub has begun an effort to compile lists of influential Weblogs by category, which could be of use to media buyers and planners eager to buy advertising in blogs.