Media:

• News sites dabble with a web tool for nudging local officials.

Search:

• In allowing ad blockers, a test for Google.

• Google doesn't want searchers to find SEOs and web designers.

Industry News:

• Some NAI members don't fully comply with behavioral targeting standards.

• Planning your next move in ad land.

• Interactive ad shop iCrossing currently entertaining acquisition bids.

Campaigns:

• 'Avatar' soars on fat ad spending, mass marketing.

Analytics:

• How to assess why some affiliates outperform others.

Social Media:

• 3 month protest resolved: YoVille widget factory returns to Facebook.

• Reviewing a year in the life of Twitter.

Smartphones:

• Firms selling apps for simple phones.

• Verizon Droid vs. Google Nexus One: an ongoing comparison.

• New specs about Motorola's Droid Devour leaked.

Mobile Computing:

• Freescale takes aim at tablet computer market.

Gaming:

• EA's Chip Lange speaks about the future of gaming’s hottest sector: casual and social games.

• Facebook app developer RockYou shifts focus to social gaming.

Legal/Regulatory News:

• AOL, Unique Vacations sue over search marketing contract dispute.

• Public interest groups call for antitrust probe of TV Everywhere.