I’m highlighting the news of a Google employee fired for his personal blog. This dismissal underscores the early risks of corporate blogging and points to the Committee to Protect Bloggers as a resource for those facing professional consequences.
Google has acquired Pyra Labs, the company behind the popular blogging tools Blogger and BlogSpot. This milestone acquisition signals a major shift as a search giant enters the rapidly growing field of personal publishing.
I recorded my blogger code, a condensed string of characters representing my personality and blogging habits, which was a popular way for early webloggers to identify themselves and their site's technical characteristics.
I share an overview of how Google Answers functions, referencing a report by a librarian who was fired from the service. I also note Google's $100 million revenue milestone and address my own gender-based assumptions.
I highlight Ovidiu Predescu's account of his first week working at Google in 2003, providing a rare look at the internal engineering culture and tools during the search company's early period of rapid growth.
I discovered a Blogger template designed to mimic Google's minimalist search interface. Found while browsing Shamit's page, it highlights a trend in early 2000s web design where creators mirrored popular search engine aesthetics for personal blogs.