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Beltway Blogroll reports that Congress will hold a hearing to explore the issue of FEC regulation of blogs.  The hearing will be next Thursday (9/22) and will feature bloggers and FEC commissioners past and present.

Audi A3 camboomo! Blog ads turn out to be better value than Yahoo banners for Audi. (tags: Advertising Blogs) Matthew Hurst wonders where Technorati’s professiona product is? Announced for August release, nothing yet seen. (tags: Blogs MediaMonitoring) American Idol Comes to Internet Ad Campaigns Why shouldn’t online marketers let the public choose the star of…

Topix.net “announced the availability of its NewsRank(TM) categorization technology across the 177 newspaper and television station Web sites of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB).  Articles on Topix.net powered sites provide links to related, categorized content, discovered through their NewsRank(TM) technology.” 

Jeff Jarvis fosters an interesting discussion about what Roger Ailes’ new role in charge of local fox stations means.  As the man who spawned Fox News Channel, he clearly has demonstrated success at innovating.  And Jeff thinks he might do the same for local news: What if, instead, a station tore into local issues and…

According to Tom Evslin, it is a book published in blog format.  But it is more than just a simple format change: Evslin has written a novel, Hackoff.com, that makes the entire blog experience, including comments, an integral part of the content, according to Fred Wilson. Unfortunately, the site seems to be down right now,…