Technorati Tackles “Blog Claiming”

Technorati has introducing "blog claiming," which "enables a blog author to associate their identity with their blog." This move has earned a smattering applause from blogosphere, although a number of people seem in "watch-and-wait" mode.

An Alternative to Wikipedia

In a Tuesday press relese, Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger announced plans to launch a rival site to the online encyclopedia. The new wiki project, Citizendium, will draw upon community experts to offer greater reliability of information.

Judge Denies Suspension Of Spamhaus Domain

Spamhaus.org garnered its first win in court, now that the company has decided to show up, against e360Insight. US District Court Judge Charles Kocaras denied a sweeping motion filed by e360 to order the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and domain registrar Tucows to suspend Spamhaus' domain name.

MSN Search Continues Downhill Trend

It's been a brutal search market except for a few. Four of the top ten search engines had significant drops in the number of searches, and MSN gets the title of biggest loser.