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Polling giant Zogby International has proclaimed the Net to be America's top news source.

eMarketer says over half of all Americans will watch online video at least once a month this year, and MarketingCharts has a good round-up on all the stats.

Compete.com has been sold to TNS for 75 million bucks - with a chance to double that price if it performs well after the acquisition. TechCrunch reports that $43 million have been invested in Compete since it got started.

News.com reports on price cuts to Windows Vista.

Nicholas Carr got a lot of people excited over the weekend with a rumor that Microsoft Office might be launching as a Web-based service. The actual news is that Microsoft is just expanding a beta test.

The never-ending 700 Megahertz auction is finally winding down. Fierce Broadband says just 25 new bids were logged on Friday. And yesterday morning saw only 17, according to Alley Insider.

The latest release from Nine Inch Nails is called Ghosts, and it's made of 36 tracks, 9 of which are free, with prices for the rest of the songs scaling up from there. You can also buy the Ghosts downloads from Amazon.

Paul Tilley was a senior ad exec who was the target of a nasty post on the AgencySpy blog. Yesterday's New York Times questions whether the blog had a hand in Tilley's subsequent suicide. Meanwhile TechCrunch asks how long it will be before ValleyWag notches up its first suicide.