America Online (AOL) and Time Warner received conditional approval from the Federal Communications Commission last night, clearing the way for the creation of the world's largest media company and the third-largest merger in history. As a condition for the merger's approval, the FCC added some restrictions to those already stipulated by other oversight panels. The FCC beefed up requirements that...

This focused Weblog is devoted to "chronicling free to fee and beyond," a neat stop for those of us who have been monitoring the changes in the Web as services struggle to stay afloat when their grant money or venture capital has been used up. The front page to the site gives a week's worth of dated entries (this week including information on Salon.com, Consumer Reports, Listbot, Napster, and...