Google Docs List View Not Just for Mobile Anymore

Google Docs users may recall last month when Google improved the mobile version by adding list view for spreadsheets, which allows you to view, edit, sort, and filter them. Before that you could only view them. Google has now made the same list view available for working on spreadsheets from desktop and notebook computers. It can be found in the View menu.

House Says Bloggers Don’t Count As Journalists

Two versions of a bill in Congress would enshrine a journalist’s right to keep his or her sources confidential, effectively banning the government from forcing journalists to reveal whistleblowers. One version though—the House version—gives an incredibly stupid definition of journalist that excludes not only bloggers, but freelancers, independents, and nonprofit journalists as well. For the most part, the Senate and House agree on what a…

Street View For The UK, Netherlands Announced

Here's a nice bit of news for anyone either planning a vacation or, due to the economy, canceling all trips farther than 15 miles from your home: Street View spread again this morning.  Imagery's now available for 25 cities in the UK and the Netherlands, and the service's coverage of France, Italy, and Spain has been expanded, too.

Sony Reader Gains Access To Google Books

Sony has reached a deal with Google to offer access to more than a half-million public domain books from Google available on its current models of its Reader. The books will be available for free to users of the Reader via Sony's eBook Store, which now boasts more than 600,000 titles. The move is seen as a direct challenge to Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, which…

Think Before You Tweet, This Juror Didn’t

Well you know you’ve hit the big time when your service is used by some crafty lawyer to file an appeal. Ok, so maybe it’s not hitting the big time but it is certainly evidence that not everyone on Twitter is a rocket scientist. Shocking I know but hey welcome to the new world order.