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: more ›

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. more ›

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. 35,000 new bloggers signed up last month, at an average of one new blogger every three seconds. Unfortunately, some recent events overshadowed the festivities. more ›

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