Word on the street (Fine, we actually just got an email from a friend. We can't lie -- our relationship with the street is a strained one, at best) is that Blogger parent company Google is launching a beta version of their search engine for blogs. Our friends at PC World Magazine (Thanks for the correction, Matthew!) laid on a spoonful of snark over the internet monolith's move: Despite pledging that it remains a......

We've got a date with Deadwood, so we'll bring you tidbits from all over nerdville, population: too many. Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn points out that constituents probably don't want their TV's f**ked with by their elected representative. Speaking of rightsholder lobbyists, Hillary Rosen (former chair of......

We'd like this post to be a celebration of the work done by David Sifry and all our friends at Technorati, who recorded their billionth link tracked today. In 2002, David "Wanted to know when somebody said something about me," and eventually helped develop one of our favorite tools for searching the web in real time. Technorati helped change the conception of the web as the "world's biggest library" into something dynamic and relevant.......

[Ed. Note: This post regards a very sensitive situation involving people we really like, but we would be remiss if we didn't report on the story or present the facts so that our readers can come to their own conclusions, hence we have included source documents that may be perceived as offensive, but only in the interest of full disclosure.] Friend of SFist Niall Kennedy managed to cause something of an uproar in the......