Google’s New Blogger Features

Google, Mozilla Renew Search Partnership

A smart person might have the equivalent of six months' expenses saved up, just collecting interest and staving off panic attacks.  Mozilla is even more set, as its search partnership with Google has been extended by three years.

Quebec Open Source Community Goes After Government

Quebec's open source organization Facil is suing the province's government for spending millions of dollars on Microsoft software, and never entertaining the idea of using anything open source. The problem here is that there is no room for competition  because the government automatically goes to Microsoft.

iPhone Factory Worker Finds Online Fame

A Chinese factory worker has become an online celebrity after a picture of her smiling and giving a peace sign to a co-worker testing an Apple iPhone remained on the phone that was sold to a man in the UK.

Yoda Blocked From Facebook

If your name is Yoda, you may have trouble getting a Facebook account. At least one woman has had that problem. A Japanese woman named Hiroko Yoda tried multiple times to sign up for Facebook, but her requests were rejected. Why? According to Telegraph, Facebook says that the name "Yoda" is blacklisted to prevent users from pretending to be people they are not. In this…

The Poetics Of Professional Tweeting

Let’s assume we’re on the same page that says Twitter is good for something. Now let’s romanticize it and equate to a modern limerick; let’s make it vulgar and call it Limerick 2.0. (The number of characters bars it from Haiku status—keep all that meaning under 30 characters and that’s serious art.) What should your little poem—the professional tweeter’s poem—say to the world?