Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” 10 years ago to describe his Robot Wisdom site, in which he logged interesting Web sites. A decade later, blog monitoring site Technorati is currently tracking more than 70 million weblogs, including everything from personal online diaries to breaking news sections of online newspapers.

Barger became the first official weblogger on Dec. 17, 1997, and in 1998, the blogosphere still only consisted of about 23 sites. In 1999, the idea began to grow, and the word “blog” began to be used as a shortened form of “weblog.”

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Members of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to overturn a ban and allow broadcasters in the 20 largest media markets in the nation to also own a newspaper.

Despite pressure from both sides of Congress to delay the vote, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was able to push it through. Martin and two other Republicans voted in favour of overturning the 32-year-old ban, while the two Democrats on the commission voted against it.

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The government of Zimbabwe has agreed to open Zimbabwe's media to foreign owners, although foreign journalists will continue to be barred from working in the country permanently.

South African President Thabo Mbeki helped to broker the changes to the Public Order and Security Act, stringent security and media laws that critics say helped entrench Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's rule.

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The single-copy price of the weekday Chicago Tribune will increase to 75 cents from 50 cents, beginning New Year's Eve.

The Tribune said the price increase, the first in more than 15 years, is necessary due to "cost escalations" over the long period.

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Russian media group Obyedinyonniye Media announced Friday that it would stop publishing its weekly newspaper, Moskovskiye Novosti, on Jan 1.

Obyedinyonniye Media, owned by Israeli-Russian businessman Arkady Gaidamak, also has other media assets including the radio station Business FM.

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In the next three years, residents of Hong Kong will be able to access the Internet everywhere they go – at the park, on a bus or at the city's harbor.

The Office of the Telecommunications Authority (Ofta) is making two additional radio spectrum portions available for broadband wireless access via WiMax, as well as 3.5G for mobile phone users, to be rolled out over the next three years, The Straits Times reported Monday.

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Conrad Black's right-hand man in the former Hollinger newspaper empire and former Chicago Sun-Times publisher was sentenced Tuesday to 29 months in prison for his role aiding Black in stealing millions of dollars from Hollinger shareholders

David Radler had pleased guilty to fraud and testified against Black in return for a lighter sentence.

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