Google Building Alternative Internet

Google is working on its most ambitious project to date, the creation of a global data transfer network that could effectively serve as a private Internet.

Blogging On Google Alerts Not Crawling For Blogs

Many people get Google news alerts. They're pretty simple. You pick your topic, say the timely subject of hurricanes. When hurricane stories appear, you get an email. You can pick the frequency upon which they appear and whether or not the alert scoura just the news or the entire web.

Handbook For Subversive, Dissident Blogging

Reporters Without Borders, in their attempts to promote free speech and discussion of and exchange of ideas, recently published a downloadable handbook on blogging called "Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents" It's for folks who want to discuss issues but, based on the rules in their homelands, can't discuss things openly.

AOL And Three Possible Partners

Time Warner's chairman says AOL is not up for purchase or partnership, but if it were, one of Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo could make an AOL deal work.