The Wall Street Journal is free today. Perusing through the site today, I found this nugget worth noting:

Pact Brings Skype Service to MySpace
By MYLENE MANGALINDAN and ETHAN SMITH
October 16, 2007 5:59 p.m.

News Corp.'s MySpace and eBay Inc.'s Skype have agreed to put Internet calls into MySpace's instant-messaging feature to gain more users and broaden the distribution of their two services.

The companies will share revenue from the partnership. Other terms weren't disclosed.

MySpace, which is the largest social-networking Web site with 110 million members, and Skype, which lets consumers call other users via computer free, have been trying to broaden their networks. Skype has 220 million registered users. The companies benefit from having more people join their communities and connect to people they know.

Voice communication is "a competitive advantage to us for gaining users and keeping users," said Kyle Brinkman, vice president of product development at MySpace.

Hmmmm... Get-out-the-vote calls from your MySpace profile? Now we're talking.

Via many tipsters, the following WSJ article has landed in my inbox on the growing influence of the conservative blogosphere:

How Conservatives Enhanced Online Voice
Talk Radio Blends With Blog Postings To Boost Message
By JUNE KRONHOLZ and AMY SCHATZ
July 3, 2007; Page A5

Political activism on the Internet -- and in the so-called blogosphere, in particular -- has long been considered a liberal stronghold. But conservative bloggers show increasing signs of their own coming of age.

They took a major leap forward by playing a central role in scuttling the Senate immigration bill. Meanwhile, many of the most popular talk-radio hosts are now posting on blogs, and the frequent collaboration of the two media is creating a unified conservative voice that is likely to be an important factor in the 2008 elections.

One example: Fred Thompson, the actor and former Tennessee senator, was posting his ABC Radio commentaries and other opinion pieces on popular conservative opinion sites for several months before he took the first steps toward a White House run.

But the immigration bill marked the first time conservative Web logs could claim to have targeted and derailed a major piece of legislation. The triumph underscored their increasing influence and signaled that the balance of online power may be evening out in the political arena.

The confluence of blogs and conservatives' dominance on radio is an especially potent mix. Talk-radio and conservative bloggers don't always work hand in hand, but they have been effective when they do.

Read the full story.

This. Is. The. Revolution.