BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Internet blogs were buzzing Wednesday over a Nike ad considered homophobic by some people in the gay community. The ad pictures a basketball player's face in the crotch of another player with the caption "That Ain't Right."

The four congressional leadership offices now all employ full-time staffers who serve as liaisons to the political blogging world and help their party's lawmakers stay in touch with the ever-growing online activist community.

Fifty-one percent of gay and lesbian adults who use the Internet regularly read blogs, while just 36 percent of heterosexuals do, according to a Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications poll conducted in March.

Lee Stranahan's post about lefty blogs ignoring the John Edwards affair was apparently the most highly trafficked story on the Huffington Post for at least two days. But when he crossposted the item...

Auckland, 27 May 2008: Nielsen Online has today launched its highly anticipated Nielsen Online BuzzMetrics service which will provide New Zealand’s first measurement and analysis of online consumer-generated media (CGM) on Internet forums such as messag