You might think that with the kind of rhetoric bloggers regularly muster against politicians, they would never work for them. But you would be wrong.

With increasing frequency, candidates across the country are paying bloggers to write, develop Web sites, connect with energetic allies, respond to online critics, and advise their employers about how to behave.

After the attacks on New York City and Washington, store shelves sag with books on terrorism. This review covers "American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us" and "Holy War, Inc.: Inside The Secret World of Osama Bin Laden."

A book review of "dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath," by J. David Kuo

A book review of "Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict," by Michael T. Klare