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RSS bloggerGoogle "profusely" sorry for Blogger blackouts
News Internet search giant Google has apologised for a series of "unplanned outages" that hit its Blogger site last week. Google's blogging service experienced five outages, both planned and unplanned, due to "power failures, fileserver trouble, and... [30 Oct 2006]
Essential Blogging: Advanced Blogger
White Paper This paper covers some features specific to Blogger Pro. The paper looks at some of the most popular customizations for Blogger, including template customization, adding comments, and statistic reporting. [10 Oct 2007]
Libya jails blogger
News Libya has sentenced a blogger to a year and a half in prison after he criticised the government in his online articles, according to Human Rights Watch. In the Libya case, a court in Tripoli convicted blogger Abd al-Raziq al-Mansuri, 52, on charges... [07 Nov 2005]
File share blunder leaks military docs to blogger
News A blogger has exposed a massive security blunder by the Dutch military which saw highly sensitive documents shared with users of the popular file-sharing application Kazaa. According to web blog Geenstijl, the problem occurred when an administrator... [31 Jan 2005]
Iranian blogger sentenced to 14 years
News An Iranian blogger has been jailed for 14 years - for criticising Iran's arrest of other online journal keepers. Another blogger who spoke out against the government, Motjaba Saminejad, remains in custody. [24 Feb 2005]
Microsoft to pay blogger for Wikipedia 'corrections'?
News Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay a blogger and standards guru to make changes to Wikipedia articles. The Redmond software giant had agreed to pay blogger Rick Jelliffe for time spent altering purported inaccuracies in an article on Microsoft... [25 Jan 2007]
Sacked Waterstone's blogger offered job back
News The Scots blogger, who worked for the firm for 11 years before his dismissal, has rejected the offer in favour of a new position at sci-fi merchandise shop Forbidden Planet International. His appeal was upheld and Waterstone's offered the blogger... [12 Apr 2005]
Microsoft blogger spills beans on search tweaks
News A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an event where the company was slated to unveil the changes to reporters. The changes to the search product, which were demonstrated at Microsoft's... [24 Sep 2007]
Microsoft feels the heat in web censorship row
News Under fire after censoring a Chinese blogger, Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new policy for dealing with government requests to block content that violates local laws. Even some within Microsoft, including corporate blogger Robert Scoble, had... [01 Feb 2006]
Blog site back up after hack attack
News Pyra managed to get its popular Blogger.com site back online again on Friday after shutting it down earlier in the day in response to a hacker attack. Pyra has taken the machine that was compromised offline and restored the Blogger site from its... [28 Oct 2002]
Google goes snap-happy with latest buy
News Picasa announced a technology partnership with Google's Blogger service in May, with the goal of enhancing photo-publishing features of Blogger. Google got into the blogging business last year, when it acquired Pyra Labs, creator of the Blogger... [14 Jul 2004]
Google: Now we do blog search
News Google's tool is designed to find listings beyond those published through its own Blogger.com service by searching blogs that publish feeds via RSS or Atom. The tool can be accessed at Blogsearch.google.com, at Search.blogger.com, as well as... [15 Sep 2005]
Salesforce.com goes offline again and again
News The GripeForce blogger wrote on Monday: "This is starting to happen all too often. One anonymous blogger purporting to be a Salesforce user posted four entries on Monday. the blogger wrote. From 10:30 a.m.through lunch, Salesforce was down. [01 Feb 2006]
New Google toolbar blocks pop-up ads and aids blogging
News Google's Toolbar 2.0, set to be officially announced on Thursday, is the first publicly available software that incorporates the technology Google gained when it acquired Blogger creator Pyra in February. [27 Jun 2003]
The EigenRumor Algorithm for Ranking Blogs
White Paper This algorithm enables a higher score to be assigned to the blog entries submitted by a good blogger but not yet linked to by any other blogs based on acceptance of the blogger's prior work. The advent of easy to use blogging tools is increasing... [29 Sep 2005]
