Blogger charged $2.5 million for not being a journalist
We get used to threats of court action from companies too bitter to take an opinion; but this case has certainly sent a scary message out to us and the rest of the blogosphere. A U.S. District Court Judge has ordered a blogger to pay the sum of $2.5 million to an investment firm she was writing about, because in the eyes of the law she isn't a real journalist.
U.S. Senator asks Google to add a terrorist flagging button to blogger
U.S. Senator Joe Liberman of the Democratic Party has written a letter to Google, requesting that its blogging platform be equipped with a flagging feature for terrorists...we're absolutely not joking about this.
Google denies reports that Google+ is dying
Reports of Google+'s death were greatly exaggerated according to Google, claiming to the BBC they they're just getting started
This comes in response to a Forbes article "A Eulogy for Google Plus", a piece in Slate: "Google+ is dead," and the general opinion circulating that seems to be we got a Google+ account; but don't really use it anymore.