Wow! Thanks very much to everyone who voted for us in the 2006 Weblog Awards. And it wasn’t just Blogger picking up the phat lewt at this year’s Bloggies. The following Blogger blogs also snagged top prizes:Tokyo Girl (Best Asian Weblog)Baghdad Burni…
If you are in the Austin area this evening, head on down to Club de Ville at 6:30p for the Blogger shindig we’re hosting at SxSW.Come have a drink on us and pick up the latest Blogger wearables.
Last week, we announced with Sony Ericsson that their new generation of camera phones will include integration with Blogger. This week, Blogger engineer Jussi Myllymaki is on the scene at the CeBIT conference in Germany to help with the public unveili…
The Jane Goodall Institute has started a Gombe Chimpanzee blog for documenting their research in Tanzania.(photo courtesy of janegoodall.org)What’s especially neat is that they’ve tied the blog to Google Earth. So you can click on a Google Earth file …
The SF Chronicle reports on a group of post-consumerists and their vow to “not buy anything new in 2006 — except food, health and safety items and underwear.”Fortunately, Blog*Spot is free so the group, called Compact, can happily blog away.
BlogHer, the fine folks behind the conference of the same name, now have a community site:Together we’re building a guide to women bloggers. In 20+ popular topics, you’ll find lists of blogs by women and constantly updating guides to what’s hot, writte…
Because of the improvements we’ve made over the past several weeks, the amount of spam hosted on Blog*Spot has been significantly reduced. However, some of this improvement may not have been observed by third-party search services who rely on our Recen…
Previously, we tied the post-level setting for Backlinks to the Comments setting. Turns out that proved a little limiting for some folks. So we’ve just pushed additional options that will enable you to control your Backlinks settings separately.These…
Hot Dog Spot “is the weblog of a crack team of ‘dogophiles’ who are hot on the trail of the best dog in Los Angeles!”Godspeed, dogophiles. I wish someone would do this for San Francisco. My vote is for Rosamunde Sausage in lower Haight.
Carla Johnson for AP on rise of blogging by senior citizens:Joe Jenett, a Detroit-area Web designer who has been tracking the age of bloggers for a personal project called the Ageless Project, said he has noticed more older bloggers in the past two yea…
We’ve just introduced a frequently-asked for feature, comment moderation. By using this feature, you can approve or reject what would-be commenters are looking to post before it goes live on your blog. This is useful in situations where you’re lookin…
A couple days ago, I picked up David Marusek’s novel, Counting Heads, based on Cory Doctorow’s ecstatic review over on BoingBoing. Last night I finished it, after a week of franticly reading it in every spare second – unable to stop because on each pa…
I remember the first time I read Tony Pierce’s blog because I’d only been working on Blogger for a short time, and the fact that I hadn’t heard of him was pretty bad from a first impressions standpoint.But my fellow Pyrate (Sutter) tipped me off, and t…
As a good number of folks have noted, the cover story of next month’s Forbes magazine features an article titled “Attack of the Blogs.”Seeing as how the article is already being picked apart by the web at large for saying things like “Web logs are the …