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Not quite, but according to the CBC, online journalists are now eligible for the Pulitzer Prize:”Internet journalism received a leap in recognition Wednesday as the Pulitzer Prize Board widened its submission guidelines to include online material for a…

Can you tell it’s a bit of a slow Friday at Blogger? Anyway, here’s Prashant and me being happy and excited in our new Blogger hoodies, which just showed up in a big box of warm fuzziness.You can be just as rockin’ by getting Blogger gear at the …

Darren Rowse, blogging at ProBlogger, posts 11 tips for increasing pageviews. This is mostly in the context of advertising on blogs (nothing wrong with that: How do I put AdSense on my blog?), but the tips are good even if you don’t sell ads on your …

You may have noticed a bit of an unplanned outage for Blog*Spot blogs yesterday afternoon. We’re really sorry about this. There was an unlikely problem with some of the Blog*Spot machines that took our engineers and operations folks a few hours of wo…

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…

Based on a blogging-themed version of the Monopoly board from littleoslo, gaming site Kurnik just launched Blogpoly. From their post about the launch:For a geek like me, there was no better theme for a Monopoly-like game that I planned to add (even Ghe…

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…

Marc Hedlund, blogging at O’Reilly Radar, makes a case for adding perhaps-inconsequential tidbits about yourself to your blog as a way to give your readers a better sense of who you are and therefore make you more memorable to them. He writes:It turns …

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.

In addition to their Legal Guide, the EFF has published a Guide to Student Blogging; here’s a snippet:Do I Have More Protections for a Personal Blog? Yes. In Emmett v. Kent School District, 92 F. Supp.2d 1088 (W.D. Wash. 2000), the court held that publ…

Every once in a great while (and much less now than in the past), we have to take Blogger down and poke at it for a bit. Blogger Status is the most comprehensive place for outage alerts, but who wants to have to check another blog? Now we have a new wa…

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…

As a consequence of adding the PuppetVision blog to Blogs of Note, I contributed to overwhelming the quota for their image hosting. Sorry ’bout that. I don’t know if it’s helpful or extortion to mention Blogger images as a way to post images with…

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…