Today’s online WSJ has a good article on the burgeoning alliance between talk-radio and conservative bloggers. An excerpt:

The confluence of blogs and conservatives’ dominance on radio is an especially potent mix. Talk-radio and conservative bloggers don’t always work hand in hand, but they have been effective when they do. The Bush administration was forced to withdraw former White House Counsel Harriet Miers’s nomination to the Supreme Court after conservatives on talk radio and on blogs complained about the choice. Currently, the two are railing against talk by some Democrats about bringing back the “Fairness Doctrine,” which required broadcasters to balance coverage on controversial topics.Liberals have long used blogs to press their views. They successfully put pressure on congressional Democrats to focus on ending the Iraq war. During the 2006 election cycle, they were instrumental in ousting longtime Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman — a fervent backer of the war — from the Democratic primary, though he won as an independent in the general election. More recently, progressive bloggers in March persuaded Democratic leaders to pull out of a Fox News-sponsored debate in Nevada.Historically, Republican bloggers haven’t generated the same kind of Internet traffic as liberal writers, even though conservatives have dominated talk radio. The defeat of the immigration bill suggests that may be changing and illustrates the tactics that bloggers could use to influence the 2008 campaign.By endlessly picking through the evolving immigration legislation, bloggers kept up a steady stream of material for each other and their readers. Talk-radio-show hosts relied on the bloggers for material, but so did voters, who swamped Senate offices with calls and faxes at the urging of conservative Web sites.The public mood against an immigration bill seems to have developed swiftly after that. The Senate last summer passed a bill that was seen as more generous to illegal immigrants, but “talk radio was nowhere” then, said Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, a Washington group that opposes increased immigration.