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......

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): "There is a lot of misinformation out there about the ways people could get......

[Ed. Note: Friend of SFist Irina offered to let us run her interview with Mark Jen, who we wrote about when he was sacked by Google for publishing information about the company online. He's right back on his feet, and working at Plaxo. So this week we'll take a step back and just be readers ourselves. Cheers.] You’d think a job at Google would be the most exciting thing for a 22-year-old techie. But......

[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......

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......