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 ›

Oh, if only this had been around for Mark Jen. SFist's nerd crush Annalee Newitz and Kurt Opsahl of the EFF just passed us a press release to highlight their on-line instructional pamphlet "How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)." From the release (because it's late, we're lazy, and we need to go hit six art shows tonight): more ›

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So we're up late last night, checking Susan Mernit's blog to see if she had already posted on the dinner at Yahoo yesterday, when we catch her post from earlier in the afternoon. She linked to John Battelle's coverage of a fracas involving a Googler fired for content on their blog. Seems Mark Jen, a new employee at Google, was dutifully using their blogging engine blogger to post to Ninety-Nine Zeros, Life @ Google from the Inside. Now he's on the outside looking in. more ›