Could blogs get tangled in web of ethics rules?

Lisa Sink reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Scott Berg, an alderman in Brookfield, a Milwaukee suburb, has registered his web site under state campaign laws.

That's because state elections law says that anyone who spends more than $25 a year to advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate -- without that candidate's knowledge or control -- must register with the state as an independent committee and disclose the sources of the money spent and how it was expended.