A Front Row Seat For Google TV

Google's foray into the television industry has been talked about since the Big G launched video search last year, and subsequently began working with TiVo last April. And now a recent Google job posting, several interesting domain registrations, and the GoogleNet buzz, which will allow pinpoint ad targeting, are evidencing a buildup to the next generation of television.

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.